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While CAIR likes to present itself as a public affairs organization, in reality it is a purveyor of hate. In May 1998, it co-sponsored a rally at Brooklyn College where radical Egyptian cleric Wagdy Ghuniem referred derisively to Jews as "descendants of the apes." Its founder, Nihad Awad, has publicly expressed his support for the terrorist group Hamas...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Extremism and Its Apologists | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...unfortunate that Bolek Kabala sides with New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in "The Brooklyn Stink" (Opinion, Oct. 15). Kabala's and Giuliani's viewpoint that publicly funded art should not offend anyone's religious affiliation is both idealistic and insular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

Should that speck of elephant dung be moved up or down on the Holy Mother's breast? To the left or right of that pornographic snippet in the background? These are the kind of questions New Yorkers got to ask starting Oct. 2, when the Brooklyn Museum of Art opened the exhibit "Sensation" to the public...

Author: By Bolek Z. Kabala, | Title: The Brooklyn Stink | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...Brooklyn Museum, right outside the entrance to "Sensation," is a small oil by Thomas Cole, the great 19th century painter who went to America from England as a young man and laid down on canvas the raw grandeur of the landscape as illustration of the new nation's moral power. The picture is easy to miss, a little study of a Christian pilgrim on the verdant knoll of a mountaintop. His arms are outspread, brilliant under a sky ablaze with light and hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shock For Shock's Sake? | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...prone to touching strangers randomly and shouting insults like "Eat me Mister Dicky-weed!" becoming a detective is probably not the most obvious career move. Case in point: Lionel Essrog, a Brooklyn P.I. who can't shoot a gun but can spend the better part of a stakeout obsessing over the numerical integrity of his meal (six White Castle burgers at 6:45). He's got Tourette's syndrome and--by the end of the first chapter of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday; 311 pages; $23.95)--a dead boss on his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wordplay | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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