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...month later, Stephen Bohler, 18, of Dayton, Ohio, made the same fatal dive. And on Oct. 16, Michelle Gluckman, 19, a sophomore from Brooklyn, New York, threw herself from the sixth-floor window of an off-campus apartment...
...Neptunes and Eminem, among others. The hooks on tracks like What More Can I Say blare like processionals for a hip-hop king, and Jay-Z raps over them with effortless self-aggrandizing. He has kept listeners engaged all these years not with his humility but with a relaxed Brooklyn baritone that makes him sound a bit like a ghetto Sinatra (callous but with enviable style). His upbringing has also made fans a little more sympathetic about his avarice. Born Shawn Carter, Jay-Z grew up in Brooklyn's infamous Marcy projects, shot his brother in an argument...
DIED. LAURENCE A. TISCH, 80, co-founder of Loews Corp. and former head of CBS; of cancer; in New York City. The Brooklyn-born Tisch began building his empire at 23 by buying a resort in New Jersey. Later, as head of Loews, he oversaw $70 billion in assets, including hotels, tobacco, insurance and watches. He gained control of CBS in 1986 with the support of founder William Paley and oversaw an era of major cost cutting and declining ratings at the so-called Tiffany network before selling the company...
This weekend is also a homecoming of sorts for co-captain forward Hana Peljto and junior guard Rochelle Bell, who are both from nearby Brooklyn Park. Delaney-Smith intentionally schedules games near players’ families so that the Crimson can play in front of a few friendly faces...
...advantage this weekend is that Harvard will not be without a cheering section—Delaney-Smith deliberately schedules games near players’ homes, so both Peljto and junior guard Rochelle Bell will have fans from their hometown of Brooklyn Park...