Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Last week Booker kicked off his latest show of bravado. He moved into his new summer digs: a 1987 motor home with mauve interior, which he will use to live in the most drug-afflicted corners of his ward. "If you roll up your sleeves and go into the neighborhoods people tell you not to go into," Booker says with his trademark self-seriousness, "you can make a difference...
...Last summer Booker erected a tent outside one of the most violent housing projects in Newark and fasted for 10 days to get more police protection for the place. It worked; Mayor Sharpe James and the police brass were shamed into paying attention. Conrad Lindsey, 25, still lives at the complex and says Booker "changed a lot of moods in this community...
Booker's first stop this summer is a battered street corner near Newark's Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Last Thursday the councilman went door to door, listening to people's concerns: one woman shows him her broken, housing-authority refrigerator; another takes him to a stripped-bare playground where the dirt reeks of urine...
...Best Actress. Harris, a stage veteran who has won a Tony, was recognized for her role in Waiting in the Wings; Ehle, best known for playing Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, got the nod for her Broadway debut in The Real Thing. This summer the two can be seen in the film Sunshine, also starring Ralph Fiennes, in which Harris plays the older version of Ehle's character, the most inspired casting since Joan and Melissa played themselves in the TV movie of their life story...
...lawsuits and public disapproval--do represent bona fide good deeds. Philip Morris, in fact, is nearly as diversified in civic work as it is in its profit centers. It has launched a $100 million-a-year campaign to reshape its image by backing the environment, the arts and summer camps for children with HIV or AIDS. Is it right, one asks, to discount such deeds because one condemns the source? What if the Ku Klux Klan were to institute a $1 million campaign for universal literacy, with a K.K.K. mom appearing on TV and asking, "Won't you join...