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...person in power, and maybe even with your friends and classmates? Do you think your opinion will have--or even deserves--more weight than your teacher's? Can you actually gain anything? Do you really want to be treated differently from all the other students in the class or section? Approaching a senior officer of the University should not be taken lightly; he or she certainly won't minimize the importance of your meeting...
Barry's resurgence also reflects Washington's racial and economic fissures. Even in the aftermath of his arrest, Barry retained many sympathizers, especially among African Americans who believed federal prosecutors had set him up. By 1992 he had moved to Washington's poorest section, cast himself as a voice for the downtrodden and won a seat on the city council. To many of his core constituents, returning him to the mayor's office would amount to vengeance. Mary Cox, a lawyer and Barry ally, says that in much of Washington's African-American community, "you learn early on that...
...Echo Park section of Los Angeles, it's hard for a man to survive. And it's almost harder for a woman to survive when her man is gunned down, sent to jail or on the lam from his responsibilities. From this sorority of the damned, writer-director Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging) highlights four young women in the episodic Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life. For them, romantic yearning is like an image of lovers on a drive-in movie screen: huge and fleeting. The film has too many slow spots, and its message is laid on with a trowel...
...ambulance!" her nephew had cried. And then she saw her husband standing over the body of her daughter Shavon, 14. "My 12-year-old had to call the ambulance. I just collapsed." The family had been in the middle of an evening barbecue at their home in the Roseland section of Chicago when gunfire from what was believed to be a gang-initiation rite sent the fatal bullet into Shavon. "There's no word to say how I feel," says Dean. "Whatever I say, it's not going to bring my daughter back...
...older generation, who are proud of the superior education and health system handed down to their children, to leave is to break faith with the revolution. "Tell my son I'm fine," says Teodomira Rodriguez, standing in the doorway of her small pensioner's apartment in the Vedado section of Havana. The 62-year-old widow said goodbye to her two sons last month: Rafael, 34, died at sea; Pedro, 32, survived but was hospitalized in Miami with dehydration and blisters after six days afloat. "They left because of the economic problems," she says...