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• [1] Josh from Jamaica, NY January 14, 2008 - 12:15PM

  Wow, no nod to "Tally's Corner" nor "The Corner".

  
  
• [2] Jeff January 14, 2008 - 12:20PM

  this is one of the most interesting interviews ever.

  
  
• [3] Nicole January 14, 2008 - 12:22PM

  Gang leadership was not the only leadership or government system in place in the housing projects at that time. There were other grassroots and citywide organizations involved with these communities and not everyone was a gang member.

  
  
• [4] Jan January 14, 2008 - 12:30PM

  Excellent. But please, let the guset talk, dont do the *I interview*... its very sad when Leonard is not in the studio.

  Get rid of projects and legalize drugs

  
  
• [5] Josh from Jamaica, NY January 14, 2008 - 12:37PM

  So this is the man who invented ethnography.

  
  
• [6] laura from brooklyn January 14, 2008 - 01:07PM

  This Lisa Birnbach is torture to listen to. It's terrible to miss Leonard for even one day, but I'd prefer dead air to this.

  
  
• [7] Sarah from Astoria January 14, 2008 - 01:21PM

  Aw, I think she's fine!

  
  
• [8] Jeffrey Slott from East Elmhurst January 14, 2008 - 01:36PM

  Dear Lisa Birnbach, you are a very good interviewer. In fact, I find you are as good as Mr. Lopate.

  
  
• [9] Tony Johnson from NYC January 14, 2008 - 01:58PM

  Lisa did an excellent job in her interview with Sudhir. It was clear that she cares, and caring is the crucial ingredient needed for the solving of serious, difficult, and dangerous problems from the local to the global levels. Because of her caring, Lisa will succeed, where others will not, in interviewing people who actually know what they are talking about. Sudhir is a good example to follow for all those people in the worlds of academia/"Think Tanks", policy, and leadership positions, of the importance of caring, AND GETTING INVOLVED, in order to TRULY understand what can never be learned in a book, if policy for the most serious problems in the world is going to be made (and carried out) that has a chance of succeeding. Good luck to them both. Don't give up.

  
  
• [10] victoria from New York City January 14, 2008 - 04:35PM

  Very nice and great research, but amazing ego to not contextualize his reserach in the long line of urban ethnography in Anthropology and Sociology (out of the Chicago school no less...) -- what about Selling Crack in the Barrio, Philippe Bourgois to start with and Tally's corner etc etc...

  Sad the lack of collegiality of a sociologist in academia...