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When James ousted 16-year incumbent Kenneth Gibson in 1986, the new mayor radiated hope for a city still scarred by the 1967 race riot that killed 26 people and left the city a wasteland of empty, brick-strewn lots. His natural charisma bridged social strata. One morning he suavely persuaded a company's executives to remain in Newark, then spied a homeless man on the street. "He bought the guy lunch, gave him a pep talk and told him to clean up and report for work at the sanitation department," recalls a subordinate...
...words I wanted people to remember from that speech, however, were not "vast wasteland." The two words I cared about were "public interest...
...first enduring sound bite. For decades, they have been used, over and over and over again, to describe what Americans find when they come home after work in the evenings and turn on their television sets, what our children find there after school or on Saturday morning. "Vast wasteland" appears in newspaper headlines, in book titles, in magazine articles, in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, even as the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question...
...children and use the opportunities presented by the superhighway in the digital age to enrich their lives. If we turn away from that choice, the consequences of our inaction will be even greater educational neglect, more craven and deceptive consumerism and inappropriate levels of sex and violence-a wasteland vaster than anyone can imagine, or would care to. Let us do for our children today what we should have done long...
...will we, once again, abandon our children to the wasteland...