Word: islands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattan to black Harlem? Not if he believed the vision this New York City community conjures up in the minds of apprehensive whites: a postnuclear landscape of poverty and blight, where crack dealers plan gang wars in cratered tenements. To most Manhattanites from the wealthy southern part of the island, Harlem hardly exists, except as an old, obscure head wound -- the beast in the attic, a maximum-security prison for the American Dream's unruly losers. Why would a white person go to this Harlem, except to buy drugs...
...filling stations to the halls of Congress, Exxon came under attack last week for its role in the Alaskan oil spill. In Washington leaders of two consumer groups gathered near an Exxon station to call for a nationwide boycott of the company's products. On New York's Long Island, Suffolk County Executive Pat Halpin said the local government would cut its contractual ties with Exxon as a supplier. In California a lawsuit was filed that accused the oil company of boosting gasoline prices to help pay the cost of cleaning up the spill. Across the U.S. average gasoline prices...
...players on the Harvard men's lacrosse team who call Long Island home...
...Airwaves: The Adelphi game was broadcast live on cable TV by the Long Island Sports Network (LISN). The LISN analysts should be commended for limiting their "Down Under" jokes regarding Panther midfielder Gordon Purdie--a graduate student from Melbourne, Australia--to one. However, their mysterious discussion of attackman Jeff Reh's maladies after his fifth goal was incomprehensible...
...season last year. The chain link fence is some eight feet high, so kids tossed their books and balls over the top. After signing, the players threw the objects back over the fence, in one of Viola's favorite spring rituals. "I was a shy kid," remembers the Long Island native, "so I had my mom ask for Rick Barry's autograph at a Nets game once. He refused. So I take as much time as I can signing autographs. The kids take it as a challenge. I'm easy to get, but some guys are tough...