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Hammond's campaign slogan is "The People's Candidate," and his roommate, Ken F. Tsang '02, calls the 6'3," 220 lb. Brooklyn native a "gentle giant...
...conditioning did not begin life as a cooling system for homes and offices. Nor did it begin life as a system. Carrier's first customer, in 1902, was a business with a production problem: a frustrated printer in Brooklyn whose color reproductions kept messing up because changes in humidity and temperature made his paper expand and contract, causing a lot of ugly color runs...
...Levitt men were a typical family. They loved each other. They were also a cocoon of misfits who drove each other crazy. Father Abe was a onetime Brooklyn lawyer and would-be philosopher. Bill recalled that Abe liked to give the impression that he knew the distance in light-years to every star. Abe eventually became Levittown's unofficial landscape theorist. He could face a reporter with a fistful of dahlias and tell him, with a straight face: "Every man has a right to flowers!" Brother Alfred designed the houses and grumbled about how credit always went to Bill...
...scenes reminiscent both of Japanese internment in California during World War II and of the Nazi's seizure of Jews during the Holocaust, Devereaux rounds up all Arab men in Brooklyn and turns Yankee Stadium into a concentration camp. Eventually, the conflict between the public's civil rights and the nation's security comes to a head, with Hubbard and Kraft working against Devereaux to find the terrorist threat...
...magnificent job. In today's high-powered, electronically driven world, it's hard to fathom a time when a dual 5-1/2" floppy disk drive was a luxury. But Bennahum takes us back to the good old days of home technology, when a simple game with plumbers from Brooklyn captivated a nation and ushered in a new era of living. Game over? Not hardly, when there's always the opportunity for an extra life...