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...power lines, subsidized grocery stores, community councils that give average people more political say - they had none of that 20 years ago. Since Chávez's leftist revolution began in 1999, though, Venezuela's oil wealth has been redirected into populist spending programs that keep the poor on side and Chávez in power...
...dated 1977. Of the group, one has become a brain surgeon, another is a top administrator in education, and a third is an Oscar-nominated actor. Three of the others pictured are now dead—victims of violence in the tough neighborhoods of Chicago’s South Side. And finally, one gangly child smiles into the camera with a basketball palmed in his adolescent hand. More than 30 years later, he is now at the helm of the United States Department of Education under the Obama administration...
...STUDYING ON THE SOUTH SIDE...
...Before education became the focus of his career, Duncan’s life centered around basketball. Though Duncan grew up in Hyde Park, he spent much of his childhood on the South Side where he had the chance to play competitive street ball. “Education came later, basketball came first,” says Duncan’s younger brother Owen. “His real great dream was to become a professional basketball player. It was somewhere between devotion and obsession...
...team is rest. “The key is, we’re playing great hockey right now,” she said. “We’re in a very different place than we were before Christmas...We might not have come up on the high side of tonight’s win, but we played very well and we want to continue to play well...