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...most recent incident in the ongoing saga of the seven square feet of brick and dirt occured two days ago, when vandals poured calcium chloride--which hampers the growth of foliage--into the hole where the new tree is to be planted. As in the past, the vegicidal culprits were not caught...
...four, the girl lost her parents in a fire. She moved in with her aunt, Gladys Perry, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, a moonscape of brick towers, security fences, dusty playgrounds, scrawny trees and empty lots. The housing project was the turf of local gangs with names like the Co-ops and the Young Guns, who settle their drug disputes with automatic weapons. When Muslim security guards were hired three years ago, the tribal warfare did not go away. It just changed, pitting the Muslims against the gangs. After a major drug dealer was killed a year ago, many...
...took two more weeks for Gates to order a "brick-by-brick" review of police-training procedures, but he was on television the very next day touting his department as a "model" for the nation. Gates' eventual apology to King was equally grudging -- and began with two absurd irrelevancies: "In spite of the fact that he's on parole and a convicted robber, I'd be glad to apologize...
Fearing that the location was too dangerous, the Iraqis moved the hostages to a red brick barracks outside Basra, where they were confined to a bare, partly underground room. "I didn't think they would kill us," said Morris, 32. "But I worried that they would hold us for two weeks or a month. My big concern was food and sanitary conditions." Their daily diet was a piece of chicken and a slice of stale bread. That was more than their guards got. "They said we were guests," Morris added. "They didn't like the word prisoners...
...Summer and the Extension schools, currently housed at 20 Garden St., will move into their new quarters at the end of the summer if the renovations on the red-brick building go as scheduled, according to Kathy A. Speigelman, director of planning for the University...