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...WILSON ORTIZ Age 47 Brooklyn "I've been thinking about it long and hard. It's a difficult time to go out and do things you'd normally do because there's that fear that if something happens - and that could be anything, not necessarily that we're attacked or anything like that - but just people may be rowdier because of the patriotism that they're feeling. Usually we've gone on the FDR drive up to the highway to watch the fireworks. But this year I'm worried: What if the crowd starts to run because somebody's setting...
Joseph Sullivan read with some apprehension the language on clerical child abuse that his brother bishops passed by a 239-to-13 vote last Friday in Dallas. It looks as if "we've just hung the priests out to dry," said the Brooklyn auxiliary bishop. Despite some complaints from victims, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops document is laudably tough on priests who abuse: any molester, past or future, will be forbidden to wear a collar, celebrate a public Mass or publicly call himself a priest. But the superiors who enabled the behavior got off easy. The document's defenders...
...impressive college career, there were doubts he could handle pro players. United won back-to-back MLS Cup titles. When he was named coach of the U.S. team in October '98, there was clamoring that the team needed a leader with a glittering international resume, not some local from Brooklyn...
...Attorney General John Ashcroft announced al Muhajir had been captured a month ago, and was now being transferred out of the criminal justice system and into military detention - a move that raised legal eyebrows, since al Mujahir was an American citizen, born Jose Padillo in Brooklyn, NY, and was raised in Chicago. President Bush has deemed the former gangbanger who converted to Islam after a spell in prison (and changed his name) an "enemy combatant." The reason is that al Muhajir had allegedly been trained by al-Qaeda in Pakistan to build a radiological bomb, and sent...
...officials told the Washington Post that al Muhajir was not part of Zubaydah's inner circle, and that they were able to find him even though the Bin Laden lieutenant had alluded to the American only in "generic terms" - although, presumably, there aren't too many Puerto Ricans from Brooklyn knocking around in militant Islamic circles in Pakistan...