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...Barnard's second transplant recipient survived for 19 months. His operations also pioneered the use of organs from brain-dead victims (see Eulogy). DIED. CARMINE NIGRO, 91, first chess teacher of Bobby Fischer, the former world champion; in Peachtree City, Georgia. In 1951, Nigro, then president of the Brooklyn Chess and Checkers Club, befriended the eight-year-old Fischer at a chess exhibition. He taught the boy for three years, but Fischer found a new tutor when his skills surpassed Nigro's. Fischer dedicated his first book to Nigro. DIED. TROY DONAHUE, 65, teenage idol in the 1950s...
...only from its recording. I began to understand its mixed reviews when I noted how poorly the book serves the music and the dramatic purpose of the piece. Still, with Jason Robert Brown’s varied and moving score and the powerful true story of Leo Frank, a Brooklyn Jew falsely accused of murder, convicted and eventually lynched in turn-of-the-century Georgia, Parade should rise again in New York, hopefully in a revised production, and hopefully soon...
...Down the East River, I could see emergency vehicles racing across the Brooklyn Bridge towards the heart of New York City?s financial district...
...senior vice president, Wagner College; George Kuh, chancellor's professor and director of the National Survey of Student Engagement, Indiana University, Bloomington; Cecilia Lopez, associate director of the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools; Roberta Matthews, provost and vice president for academic affairs, Brooklyn College; and Kay McClenney, senior associate of the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning...
...their twin-engine Cessna crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff. Her career, which began at age 11 with an appearance on TV's Star Search, included two platinum albums, a third album released in July and an appearance in last year's movie Romeo Must Die. The Brooklyn-born, Detroit-raised star was also set to appear in two sequels to The Matrix, and she starred in the movie version of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, to be released early next year. Grieving fans lined Manhattan's Upper East Side streets as the singer's coffin...