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April, 2002.

DIARY

In April 2002, I was living in East Humboldt Park with Ben. While we had successfully chased the roaches into the wall with threats of a rent strike, we weren’t able to do a think about the precariously tilting floor or that fact the the bust season had just started for the gangbangers on the corner.

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Setting the Bar High.

EVENT

As I’ve written about on past occasions, Walter Milton, Jr. became superintendant of the Flint School District short of two years ago. He is currently one of two candidates for that position with the Springfield School District in Illinois. If he leaves, the FBOE will have lost three superintendants in as many years.

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Oneidine 13, 29.

DIARY

Last week was so busy that it basically dissolved in a haze. The first part of the week, of course, was more of what we’re all used to: New School colloquium events and readings, assignments on the Holocaust and Smashing Pumpkins and serial killers and lumberjacks, voting for LaKisha for American Idol, and all of these other matters of grave and personal importance.

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