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...5º with wind chill in Brooklyn this morning--ideal weather for SUV hunters to stalk and tag their prey, since the vehicles' owners are likely to be indoors. One tagger, who says her name is Wendy, girds herself for the hunt with two layers of sweaters, a silky orange-and-cream scarf and a handful of bumper stickers. "I feel like I should be putting on camouflage," she jokes, "to Pink Panther music...
...Brooklyn resident, Mackinnon said that the protest made her view her native city with a new perspective...
POETRY READINGS GALORE. Inspiration abounds for the poetically inclined at the Wordsworth Bookstore this weekend. Poets Daniel Bouchard, author of Diminutive Revolutions, and Joanna Fuhrman, Freud in Brooklyn, are giving readings on Friday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. Poets Maria Tarrone and Joan Houlihan are featured at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22. Wordsworth Books, Cambridge...
...TIME IN DEPTH story about the challenges facing ex-convicts, Jean Sanders evaluated his options. Compared with most men just out of prison, he had it all. After a year of scraping and pleading, he had moved out of a homeless shelter and into a rented room in Brooklyn, N.Y. He had apologized to his mother and grown daughters for his years of drug dealing and addiction, and despite a sense of foreboding, they had taken him back. He had finally found a job, as a gas-station attendant. And the TIME article about his return to society had inspired...
...October, exasperated by the program's rigidity--which made it hard to contact family or go to church regularly--Sanders walked out and spent the weekend at his mother's home in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. He went to his parole officer that Tuesday and was put in handcuffs. Parolees cannot change their address without permission. Finally, his parole officer agreed to let him try another program...