Word: brooklyn
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...first time in the history of Harvard's fencing program, the women placed first in the team competition at the NCAA Northeast Regional Qualifier held Saturday at Brooklyn College...
Smith burst into the national consciousness with Fires in the Mirror, which played off-Broadway and around the U.S., became a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in drama and was adapted for PBS. That piece took on a confined conflict between blacks and Jews in Brooklyn. Her new Twilight tackles the complex sociology of the Los Angeles riots. After a spellbinding debut there, it has been revised and restaged for an off-Broadway run starting next week, with a transfer to Broadway planned for April...
Everyone who knew him growing up agrees that Benjamin Goldstein -- Benjy, as they called him -- was a religious boy. In Bensonhurst, his middle-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, the piety of his Orthodox Jewish family set them apart from more secular Jewish neighbors. Though his father worked for the New York City Board of Education, the young Goldstein, with his side curls and yarmulke, attended school at a yeshiva. His faith seemed to draw him apart from others into an otherworldly solitude. If there was a tongue of flame in his heart, so much as a flicker of anything like bloodlust...
...recently as last summer, however, Farrakhan seemed to be taking a softer line. According to Representative Major Owens of Brooklyn, a Congressional Black Caucus member, "Farrakhan proposed that the caucus serve as an intermediary between himself and the Jewish community. He did not indicate what he wanted to tell them, but he did insist that he wanted peace, that he had been seeking a dialogue." Yet in November when top aide Khallid Abdul Muhammad made a venom-soaked speech at New Jersey's Kean College, a state- funded school, Farrakhan rebuked him only for his "mockery" and said he could...
...erstwhile Dodgers fans used to say in Brooklyn: "Wait 'til next year...