Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father just as absent as Art Buchwald's mother was. The father, Billy Hamill, who came from northern Ireland, had only one leg: he lost the other after it was brutally broken in a soccer game. When Billy came home from the saloons at night to the family's Brooklyn apartment, he would remove his artificial leg along with his trousers. Pete remembers them hanging over a chair in the bedroom and the smell of vomit. He had his first fight when a boy named Brother Foppiano taunted in a singsong, "Your old man's an Irish drunk! Your...
...Kushner is especially troubled by the suggestion that angels appear only to some people and not to others. "I find that horrendously offensive," he says. "The question is, why are you saved with your guardian angel and not the woman who was shot to death shielding her children in Brooklyn three weeks ago? That suggests a capricious divine force. If there is a God, he can't possibly work that...
...Enrolled in a local community college, Ferguson made the dean's list three times. But that approximation of bliss collapsed in 1988, when Warren sued for divorce and won custody of their child. By last week, Ferguson was jobless and living in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, in a tiny $175-a-month room with a communal bath down the hall...
Clinton was motivated to address the problem of handgun violence in part because of a gruesome incident on New Yorks Long Island Rail Road in which an evidently deranged man wielding a 9-mm pistol killed five commuters and wounded 18 others. The assailant, Colin Ferguson of Brooklyn, is black; he carried notes that told of his hatred of whites, Asians and "Uncle Tom" Negroes...
...began airing Generation Under the Gun, a documentary in which kids talk to host Tabitha Soren about the realities of living with guns. From Omaha to New Orleans to Brooklyn, many say that having a gun for protection is a fact of life -- and that getting one is easier than getting an education. The channel is also showing a new violence-prevention rock video called 99 Ways to Die by the group Megadeth...