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...strike and was jailed twice. When the intifadeh caught fire, he moved to the front line of the shabab, the young militants who keep the rebellion alight. Last winter the Israeli authorities threatened to demolish his family's home if he did not turn himself in. He complied and spent 8 1/2 months under administrative detention. At one point, he and two of his brothers shared a tent in the harsh desert camp at Ketziot...
Diebenkorn, 66, has spent nearly all his working life in California; but the time is long past when he was regarded in New York as a California artist, with the slight condescension that implies. He is, quite simply, one of the best painters America has ever produced. He began as an abstract painter, making organic, landscape-like images in an idiom related to abstract expressionism; one of his inspirations, though in the end an adversary one, ! was Clyfford Still, a colleague at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in the late '40s. Then in 1956 he turned...
...first glance, Gray seems an unlikely leader of a growing national movement. She spent many of her 42 years living on welfare. Raised in a public-housing complex in Washington, Gray at 19 was the mother of five children with no husband. Self-pity, however, rarely troubled her. "My grandmother taught me I had to lie in my own bed and be responsible for my life...
...Robert Woodson argues that "people change their behavior in order to stay in Kenilworth-Parkside. It's a class-specific solution in which poor people help themselves." Woodson, whose National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise helps promote tenant management throughout the U.S., says that "the federal and state governments have spent nearly $1 trillion over the past 20 years in a largely failed effort to fight poverty. Now Kimi and others are taking it out of the hands of professionals and giving jobs to tenants...
...president of Lionel Trains. In 1959, Lionel was the biggest toymaker in the land. After years of languishing, the company was bought in 1986 by a Detroit real estate developer and avid collector; this year production and sales increased by 35%. The customers are "baby-boomer fathers who have spent 20 years building careers," says Cooney, "and now they are looking back at their childhood remembering playing with their Lionel trains with their dads...