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Ivan was John Demjanjuk, an engine mechanic for Ford Motor Company who lived at 3326 New Avenue in Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. During the war, Ivan had been infamous for wielding a large pipe and using it to crack the skulls of Treblinka's prisoners...
...father's father teaches law at a Philippine university, employs two maids and paid for undergraduate and professional degrees for all of his eight children. My mother's father worked in a factory, and his children didn't go to college. I grew up in a middle-class suburb because of my father's education, not because of the color of my mother's skin...
...PEOPLE SENSED THERE was something wrong in the life of 10-year-old Katie Beers. No one seemed in a position to do much about it. To the neighbors in West Islip, a Long Island suburb, she was the wide-eyed little girl who roamed the streets at all hours, sometimes coatless in the winter. Child- protection authorities had built up a fat dossier on her makeshift family. They knew that sometimes Katie stayed with her unmarried mother in a filthy, roach-infested house where rusted cars and an old refrigerator decorated the lawn. But sometimes...
Workers laying a new sewer line in a Cairo suburb uncover foundations of a 4,600-year-old working-class neighborhood; a subway project in Rome reveals a long-dead Pope's toothbrush; improvements in Red Square during the twilight of the Soviet empire unearth wooden homes built before Moscow had its first prince in the 13th century. In the next millennium, construction workers in Cairo, Rome and Moscow will no doubt be puzzling over traces of current cultures. As the triumphant remake the world's cities, the shards of the vanquished are literally trodden into the ground...
...image of a burning American flag alternates with clips from the Rodney King videotape while a recording of one of Malcolm's most militant speeches plays in the background. "It's not going to be interpreted intellectually," frets Constance Cumbey, a white attorney who practices in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. "It's going to be visceral...