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...story short, the cuckold beat the lover senseless with a motorcycle helmet--sending him to the hospital--and for good measure, rammed the lover's Jeep into a hydrant. The police came, lawyers were hired, Lou and his wife split--and Lou ended up here in a classroom in Brooklyn, N.Y., as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors. Though the others chuckle at the fate of Lou's victim--after all, they wouldn't be here if they didn't want to kick someone's butt--instructor Alan Greenfield presents a good reason to count to 10 next time...
There is a tiny bit of anecdotal evidence in New York. The city's most famous graduate is Sean ("Puffy") Combs, the deposed impresario of rap. He took the course in Brooklyn that Lou and the others have completed--only Puffy had a limo waiting outside. A few weeks later, he was arrested and charged with gun possession after a nightclub shooting. Combs has denied the charges. Greenfield, the instructor, offers the Combs case as a cautionary tale, pointing out that if Puffy is found guilty this time, he won't slide by with an anger-management course. Adds Greenfield...
...past year, however, Giuliani has targeted his blood thirst at members of society who are totally innocent. He attempted to close the Brooklyn Museum because it showed artwork not to his taste. He began to fine jaywalkers. He evicted the homeless from shelters. Holding an open beer can became a minor offense...
...looks like a typical high school classroom, but the question Ronald Quartimon poses to his African-American students at Bedford Stuyvesant Outreach, an alternative high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., isn't about the Civil War or Shakespeare's sonnets. He wants to know how many of them have ever been stopped by the police. Six hands shoot up. "Usually," says a student, "they just come out right off the bat and ask you, 'Do you have any drugs?'" The comment is a typical one for the 10-session course called Conflicts with Cops, run by the Harlem-based Neighborhood Defender...
...prisoners race for one of the Empire State's U.S. Senate seats, may be showing his softer side. In a move that pundits are saying is designed to demonstrate his hitherto virtually unknown ability to compromise, the mayor on Monday struck a deal to end his dispute with the Brooklyn Museum, from which he had withdrawn funding last year over its exhibition of an elephant-dung-smeared "Virgin Mary" portrait and other controversial art. In the agreement, the city will continue to fund the museum at its current level and the museum will drop a First Amendment suit...