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...clients for paying him to speak, Clinton isn't the only one being damaged. His wife's Senate debut has been spoiled by the calls that are flooding her makeshift work space in the basement of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Hillary last week went to three Brooklyn churches to talk about racial profiling--and ended up answering questions about whether she had properly reported the glittery handbags she'd received...
...BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART Tax $$ for nude black female Jesus in Yo Mama's Last Supper gives Giuliani acid reflux redux...
...wasn't an overnight success. At 18, Orville Richard Burrell (his oft untamed mane earned him the nickname Shaggy) left Kingston, Jamaica, for Brooklyn, N.Y., to launch a singing career. When he couldn't make ends meet, he joined the Marines. A year later, he found himself in Iraq with an artillery battery weaving through minefields. "It was wild--the atmosphere was kind of like Three Kings," he says, referring to the 1999 movie. During the long stretches of downtime, he started writing songs and, when he was discharged two years later, decided to make another run at recording...
...child who reimagines the lives of her parents clearly is also bound to paint her own self-portrait using the reflections in their eyes. And so it happens for Devorah Arnow as she memorializes her mother Chenia, a Russian Jewish emigre who settled in Brooklyn in the middle of the 20th century, raised a family, grew old, but never really got off the boat from Europe. Chenia, as Devorah reconstructs her in Carole Glickfeld's Swimming Toward the Ocean (Knopf; 388 pages; $24), lingers on a sort of moral gangplank with a view of the dazzling rides at Coney Island...
STRATEGY REVEALED; of the 1951 pennant-winning NEW YORK GIANTS. The team triumphed over the Brooklyn Dodgers in one of the most mythologized games in baseball history, known for its "shot heard round the world," but the Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Giants probably read the Dodgers' pitching signals by placing in the center-field clubhouse a coach adept at deciphering signals with a telescope...