Word: brooklyn
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...Francisco city government became so corrupt that a citizens' Vigilance Committee took over, violently. The year was 1856. Across the U.S. in Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman watched with approval. He wrote in his notebook, "These [United] States need one grand national Vigilance Committee, composed of the body of the people," to overthrow the government in Washington. Walt Whitman...
...cross-examination of criminalist Andrea Mazzola continued today with Judge Lance Ito once again asking the trial be speeded up, but asking that defense attorney Peter Neufeld slow down so that court reporters would have an easier time understanding his Brooklyn accent.Ito continued to pick up the pace, refusing to confer with lawyers at sidebar and giving attorneys a 15 minute time limit to argue legal points. Neufeld continued his examination of Mazzola, once again asserting that Mazzola improperly collected blood evidence, while Mazzola confidently maintained that she had done everything according to how she was taught. Mazzola admitted...
Reached at her Brooklyn, N.Y., home yesterday,Yatrakis refused to confirm the accuracy of theTimes report...
...forced to drive over terrain and through obstacles that I had never tackled before. I drove through a toll booth and clumsily made change with the attendant, who was not amused by my awkwardness in maneuvering the car so our hands could meet, I drove through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and tried to forget that I absolutely detest tunnels. I then drove over the Verrezano Narrows Bridge. Immortalized in Saturday Night Fever, one of my favorite films, the Verrezano is the world's longest suspension bridge. And I drove over it, reaching Staten Island just as the sun was breaking...
Foxman cited the stabbing death of a Jewish scholar, Yankel Rosen-baum, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn at the height of Black-Jewish tensions in New York City in the summer of 1991 and a shooting attack on followers of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson, as they drove along the Brooklyn Bridge...