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Because she's 17 and black (her father calls her a "ghetto Cinderella"), and because she's been hyped for years (she got a multimillion-dollar Reebok contract at 14), she overshadowed the new men's champion--Australian heartthrob Patrick Rafter--and women's champion Martina Hingis, who is a year younger than Williams and creamed her in the finals.
The title track of his 1997 triple platinum album, Ghetto D , is a recipe for making crack from cocaine.
Chatterbox thinks it's the key to successful welfare reform (which is the key to solving America's most pressing social problem, the problem of "ghetto poverty").
And since no one bundles them off into the ghetto of genre when they bring in magic (unless you consider juvenile lit a genre), children's authors can draw on myths and fairy tales to give their books resonance and deeply satisfying structure.
DeParle's one stab at a general assessment of the social health of Milwaukee's ghetto is rhetorically brilliant but ultimately unconvincing.