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...well-developed standard for judging the culpability of fiction; libel rulings have been concerned mostly with news reports. Real people have served as models for fictional characters, from Proust's Baron Charlus to Bellow's Humboldt. An author's weave of truth and invention is difficult to unravel, and never more so than in a semiautobiographical work like The Bell Jar, which was first published in Britain in 1963, just a month before Plath committed suicide. The story of a young woman's descent into madness spoke to the rising women's movement as well as the romantic instincts...
Chicago's Humboldt Park is a dangerous area, but last March Blanca Ibarra and her family felt safe enough to troop to a photo studio near the park. It was Ibarra's 15th birthday, and the family wanted to record the event. Two jittery gang members, under the impression that a rival group was gathering, opened fire, wounding two and killing one. In cities large and small, the surge of new immigrants has led to a sharp rise in crimes committed by ethnic gangs. In earlier waves of migration, the members were Irish, Jewish and Italian. Now they are primarily...
...from the sounds and the smell of the cooking. In Mexican areas people are doing the taco thing with beans and rice; in Puerto Rican areas it's roast pork and fried rice. If you walk around Pilsen (a Mexican enclave) you'll hear mariachi music; in (Puerto Rican) Humboldt Park you'll hear salsa and conga drums...
During the first five weeks of Humboldt's program, five "guests" ran up a tab of $1,000. Officials in both counties say the prisoners are getting a bargain. At the Delaware County Jail, their payments cover only about 20% of their upkeep. Inmates are provided with such extras as stationery and stamps, free haircuts and medical and dental care...
...Humboldt's Jurgens emphasizes that his jail will not become a debtor's prison. Indigents are not kept in custody if they cannot pay after their sentences are completed. The counties pick up the tab for those who are found innocent. Jurgens thinks the plan could have national appeal. Says he: "You can't believe the inquiries and requests for information we get. I want it to spread...