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The insufferable wonder. (Bird's Eye).

The American Enterprise

| June 01, 2002 | Zinsmeister, Karl | COPYRIGHT 2002 The American Enterprise, a national magazine of politics, business and culture (TEAmag.com). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

While researching this issue of The American Enterprise I spent much of one day walking across the South Bronx. (Never let it be said that editor of a magazine is a cushy job; I ended up with blisters on both feet the size of quarters!) When I was passing through New York City frequently in the late 1970s and early 1980s on my way to and from college, the South Bronx was, literally, a war zone. There were famous police-escorted visits by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, who stepped from their limos to peer at burned-out buildings and pronounce the scene reminiscent of a bombed cityscape after World War II. Over a period of a decade or two the area was abandoned by 300,000 ...

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