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From Manhattan, the South Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn the raw come to audition. Some have been sheltered, some have been hardened. But four years later, in the film's well-orchestrated finale, they join together to sing...
...perils of teaching. Boston Correspondent Joelle Attinger once tutored at an inner-city grade school in Philadelphia. Linda Stern Rubin of TIME's Detroit bureau teaches a class in magazine writing at Wayne State University. Los Angeles Correspondent Robert Goldstein taught for two years in a South Bronx grade school and suffered a literal case of "teacher burn-out." Returning from lunch one day, he found flames leaping from his classroom window...
...modeling agency named My Fair Lady. For five years before Tupper came along, she had also been Jacobson's mistress. Two weeks after Cain broke off with Jacobson, Tupper's charred body, shot seven times and stabbed repeatedly, was found in a burning crate in a Bronx lot. Jacobson was reportedly seen speeding away from the lot in a yellow Cadillac. Arrested the next day, he was found guilty of second-degree murder last April...
...prison, Jacobson quietly began selling some of his real estate, reportedly raising as much as $850,000 in cash. The Bronx district attorney heard of Jacobson's dealings and warned the Brooklyn prison, in vain, to keep a close watch on him. One of Jacobson's deals had been with DeRosa, who had bought a Vermont ski lodge from the former horse trainer in 1977. DeRosa, however, had fallen behind in his payments, and now it might have come time for Jacobson to ask for a favor. Police speculate that DeRosa, attaché case in hand, brought...
Other projects that have received funding range from $39,000 for a windmill in an abandoned area of New York's South Bronx that provides the electricity to turn vegetable waste into compost, to $7,450 for an artificial lagoon in Hercules, Calif., to purify water and make methane gas. This year Robert Witkoff, 40, an industrial designer and builder of electric cars in Glen Cove, N.Y., is asking for $50,000 to help develop an integrated windmill system that would use gently blowing breezes both to drive household appliances and to recharge the batteries of an electric...