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Teacher’s Doc A National Finalist

A Bronx teacher is earning top honors for getting creative with cable TV.

Don Cerrone, who teaches at the Jonathan Levin High School for Media and Communications in Tremont, is among 44 national finalists for the 2008 Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards.

The awards program is sponsored by Cablevision, Time Warner Cable of New York & New Jersey and Cable in the Classroom, the cable industry’s education foundation.

Cerrone is being honored for his work with students on “Recapturing Glory,” a documentary about the Bronx.

Finalists are eligible for a $3,000 prize, a free trip to Washington, D.C., and a June awards ceremony and gala in honor of the winners at the Library of Congress.

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  The Bronx of the ’70s and ’80s was depicted in “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” a best-selling novel by Tom Wolfe.

  Tom Wolfe in 1987.

 Changes in the city in recent decades are illustrated by views of Hewitt Place in the Bronx around 1979, top, and today.

No Longer the City of ‘Bonfire’ in Flames 

Twenty years ago, the acid-penned journalist Tom Wolfe unleashed his first novel, “The Bonfire of the Vanities.” Skewering everyone from self-absorbed Wall Street millionaires to hucksterish street politicians, the sprawling satire painted a picture of a New York declining inexorably into racial conflict, crime and greed.

The novel tapped, to electrifying effect, a vein of anxiety that defined 1980s New York. From the moment it was published in November 1987, new episodes in the drama of the metropolis seemed to unfold like chapters in Mr. Wolfe’s story.

Four white youths from Howard Beach, Queens, were already on trial for beating a black man who fled to his death in traffic on the Belt Parkway.

That same month, a black teenager named Tawana Brawley, who was found smeared with feces in a garbage bag, said she had been assaulted by white men with badges, sparking a prosecution that later collapsed when it was determined that she had fabricated the story.

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