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...Chicago the South Shore Bank, which has helped rehabilitate the city's South Shore area by providing reconstruction loans, has expanded into Austin, a blighted neighborhood of 150,000 residents on the city's West Side. The bank has made $500,000 in loans in Austin since last summer, and a bank affiliate is helping renovate two buildings in the area. In December, Chicago's John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced it would donate $3 million to the project...
...indefatigable researcher as well as an arresting stylist, Hughes, born and raised in Australia, has brilliantly filled the gap. The Fatal Shore (the title comes from a typically doleful convict ballad) is more than factually comprehensive; it re-creates the emotions of history, allowing the reader to smell the gin and feel the pain, to experience that misery-filled world almost as intensely as those who lived...
...Panic of '89 pits the haves against the have- mores. -- The Fatal Shore brilliantly traces the tragedy of Australia' s beginnings...
...course; Roth has argued for years that everyone does so all the time. So let's pretend. Philip, the younger son of Herman and Bess Roth, was born in Newark in 1933. He . . . he was born in Newark . . . grew up loving baseball and enjoying summer outings to the Jersey shore. He was a bright student, and after graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he spent a year at the Newark extension of Rutgers University. Then, wanting to see something of the world outside his hometown, he transferred to Bucknell in central Pennsylvania, where he acted in college drama productions...
Last week State President P.W. Botha took strong action to shore up the country's quickly deteriorating network of black schools. He announced a new set of regulations designed to restore order to the schoolhouse -- and to crush rampant dissent within it. The emergency decree empowers the director general of the Department of Education and Training to set rules governing almost everything touching school life, including whether students can wear T shirts emblazoned with political slogans...