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...wrote "Hogan's Goat," a play about turn-of-the-century Brooklyn-Irish politics, which served as an off-Broadway launching ground for Faye Dunaway...
Alfred, a Brooklyn native, studied at BrooklynCollege before serving in the Army in World WarII. He earned master's and doctoral degrees inEnglish from Harvard...
MOLD-FASHIONED Belgian designer Martin Margiela seems intent on triggering acute nasal distress in those who view his latest creations. Margiela is unveiling a line of mold-covered garments Monday at the Brooklyn Anchorage gallery in New York City. The clothes were dipped in agar and treated with mold, bacteria and yeast; they were then left to develop new colors and textures (the smell is a bonus). Ideal accessory: that fuzzy fruit in the back of the fridge...
Other incidents were more ambiguous. Five teens at William McKinley Junior High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., were arrested after boasting about plans to blow up their school on graduation day. The students insisted they were just joking. Authorities slapped them with conspiracy charges nevertheless. Schools in Hillsborough, N.J., were shut down for a day when students received e-mail warnings, "If you think what happened in Colorado was bad, wait until you see what happens in Hillsborough Middle School on Friday." In Bakersfield, Calif., authorities yanked a 13-year-old boy out of school after his classmates spotted him loading...
...gunshot victims, extracting millions from gun manufacturers, or at least forcing them to mount expensive defenses in hundreds of suits, then it is possible that the N.R.A. and other defenders of the gun might abandon their cold-dead-hand absolutism and begin to compromise a little. At least one Brooklyn jury has already issued a warning: last February it ordered three gun companies to pay a young gunshot victim $500,000 after finding that they had engaged in the "negligent distribution" of their product...