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...grew up in what the sociologists call an "interstitial, which is a fancy term for a neighborhood that is falling apart. Our neighborhood had been lower middle-class white, but black people were moving in and the streets were increasingly torn by violence. Our sophomore year, team morale was shattered before one crucial game because several members of the team received death threats from the notorious Blackstone Rangers. "We don't care about Washington High," captain Craig Howard said in the tense locker room. "We just don't want the Stones opening up on its with shotguns when we line...
East Cambridge's riot-torn Roosevelt Towers section was peaceful last night for the first time since the death of a 17-year-old youth arrested there Saturday night...
...will not be ready for Dartmouth are adjuster Steve Golden and left defensive end Mitch Berger. Golden is still plagued by a neck injury sustained in the Columbia game. Berger is through for the year. Next week he will undergo surgery to correct torn cartilage...
There is a sort of Evelyn Waugh-torn atmosphere in Kampala. While a vast crowd of Africans swarmed up Acacia Avenue toward the stadium, a lone white man carried on unperturbedly with his golf game on the course near by, his black caddy trotting dutifully by his side. Foreign journalists are definitely not welcome in the capital these days, and the few whites in the streets get curious stares, particularly if they are carrying cameras...
...guests were aghast. Most had never been to New Bedford a scan 40 miles away. Most feared it as ugly, riot-torn, dangerous; as somehow impure and of a different species of America. No, they said, they would play their political games in the suburbs where politics is neat and clean and genteel, and have nothing to do with those ugly places where the work people did made smoke come out of factory chimneys...