http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/julia_magnet en http://www.newstatesman.com/200306230019 http://www.newstatesman.com/200306230019 Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:00:00 GMT Julia Magnet Julia Magnet returns home to New York and finds that, under Mayor Bloomberg, the old diseases of rising crime, spreading graffiti and ubiquitous ghetto blasters have returned with a vengeance

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