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Skipping Rope

By Kate Greer

Double Dutch is a cross section of culture and athleticism, play and performance. It’s like inserting yourself in a rope Rototiller.

Jumping rope on the sidewalk, Chicago, Illinois, 1941. Photograph by Edwin Rosskam. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Bloomberg Says His Prayers

By Kate Greer

While Fernando Ferrer is getting a lift from Bill Clinton, Mike Bloomberg is getting his from the Lord. On a recent Sunday in Bed-Stuy, Bloomberg sits among the congregation at Cornerstone Baptist Church alongside Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. In a crowd of myriad browns, the two undersized Jewish men absorb the sermon of Reverend Lawrence E. Aker, III.

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