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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Albert told the New York Times in 1991, "I always wanted to be a sportscaster from the third grade on." The bright kid from Brooklyn was raised to have a goal and pursue it vigorously through established channels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Latrell Was Born, and a Sportscaster Redeemed | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...told 16-year old Latrell that six years later he would be a professional basketball player, he might have tried to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Latrell Was Born, and a Sportscaster Redeemed | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...began the case on a Monday morning. After cooking myself a breakfast of solar-heated chickwiches in my $2,000 studio apartment--a cardboard box under the Brooklyn Bridge--I donned my bullet-proof vest for entry into the Manhattan office...

Author: By Baratunder Thurston, | Title: How to Help an International Drug Cartel in Three Easy Steps | 2/16/1999 | See Source »

Like they used to say in Brooklyn, wait `til next year...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: M. Hoopsters Officially Done | 2/16/1999 | See Source »

...chestnuts to be cut down, chipped up and burned in an effort to stop the spread of a new and unwelcome Chinese import: the Asian long-horned beetle. It's the first infestation since the pest was originally identified in the U.S. in 1996, when 2,400 trees in Brooklyn and Amityville, N.Y., were lost. But the fast-moving critters could be anywhere. "It's quite possible that other places have them," says Joe McCarthy, Chicago's senior forester, "and just don't realize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Naked City: How an Alien Ate the Shade | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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