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Shelemay specializes in ethnomusicology, which is the study of music in its broadest cultural and historical context. She has investigated the musical traditions of Ethiopian religious music--both Christian and Jewish--and is currently investigating the ritual music of Brooklyn's community of Syrian Jews...
...lucky I am to be from this family because it has provided me with endless material," Wasserstein said. She also said frequent trips to Broadway from her Brooklyn home had inspired...
...fire fighters. In Washington last weekend, Donnie Scantlebury, 19, a college student from Houston, talked about "friends who died from suicides, fights, drugs. In any black neighborhood, everyone has seen friends killed or taken off to jail. I want people to see we can get together without fighting." In Brooklyn salesman Kirk McNeil, 29, was more matter-of-fact. "I expect the march to change my life," he said...
...have performed as consistently as Steinhardt, a jeweler's son from Brooklyn whose first shares of stock were a bar mitzvah present from his father. He broke into Wall Street as a research analyst but, by the age of 26, had started his own firm and kicked off his winning streak. One dollar invested with Steinhardt in 1967, the year he founded his firm, would be worth $462 today. That compares with a $17 value today for a dollar invested the same year in the stocks listed in the Standard & Poor's 500. Richard Cooper, an investor who entrusted...
Simpson made some calls. He tried to reach "those guys from Brooklyn"--defense attorneys Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld--who spent their first night of freedom enjoying another win: watching the Yankees beat the Seattle Mariners. He telephoned his former in-laws, the Browns, and made the case, yet again, for his innocence. When Simpson's mother Eunice settled into a chair, a friend said, "he just sat down beside her and looked into her eyes. No words...