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New York’s Chinatown: Becoming Scrutable
Eddie Hong, lawyer, travel agent and now a candidate for the State Assembly, is the first Chinese-American in New York City’s history to run for public office. Just as his campaign reflects his...
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Bob Dylan’s Pain: Flip Side of Cruelty
Riffs: Bob Dylan’s Pain — Flip Side of Cruelty February 3, 1975 Bob Dylan has regained his courage. Blood on the Tracks has more raw power than any of his albums since Blonde on Blonde. It fuses the...
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The Ballad of Tom Hill
A Doorman’s Tale Doormen, once the staid, uniformed liverymen for the affluent, have become unarmed sentries on the battleground of the Upper West Side. Yet, servants or victims, they remain invisible...
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Chicago 1968: Blood Outside the Arena
Chicago in August: Prelims are Bloody CHICAGO — The lid blew off Monday night. In the Amphitheatre: Hubert Humphrey made his pact with the South and John Connally became his Strom Thurmond. Eugene...
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Chicago 1968: Moderates, Militants Walk a Bloody Route Together
Moderates, Militants Walk a Bloody Route Together September 5, 1968 CHICAGO — Eighteenth Street and Michigan Avenue to the 15th floor of the Hilton Hotel — a lot of lives were changed along that bloody...
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Thinking About the ’60s: The Things We Knew Then
Vivid Then, Fading Now? 1. James Forman was a. ’68 Olympic heavyweight champion b. national director of the Congress of Racial Equality c. a Czechoslovakian film director d. executive secretary of the...
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Holy War in West Virginia: A Fight Over America’s Future
Charleston, W. Va. — The turbulent textbook controversy that has crippled schools here is more than a simple fight over the adoption of 325 first through 12th grade supplementary English textbooks. For...
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Orthodox in New York: A Journey Through the Year 5738
During the past year I’ve spent a great deal of time in New York City’s Orthodox Jewish communities — particularly on the Lower East Side of New York. It has been a wondrous voyage through time. Now,...
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