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- s having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment
- Because he believes it reflects his own life story, Bush loves it when the elite are upstaged by the streetwise.
- CLAUDE BROWN, 64, author whose streetwise chronicle of growing up poor in Harlem, Manchild in the Promised Land, became a provocative civil rights-era best seller; of lung disease .
- Williams was instantly picked on by the bigger, more streetwise kids there.