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EVER SINCE SHEIK OMAR AHMED ALI Abdel Rahman arrived in America in July 1990, he has confounded the U.S. government. His incendiary sermons at mosques in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York, have called for the violent overthrow of the Egyptian government. Now six of Sheik Abdel Rahman's followers have been indicted in connection with the bombing of the World Trade Center. Little wonder that the U.S. State Department is trying to figure out how the sheik got to America in the first place...
Keno learned all about the system by hanging out in the subway dispatcher's office in Brooklyn, where he picked up the transit jargon and befriended motormen. Keno, stocky and stout, convinced one of them, Regoberto Sabio, that he was a 25-year-old motorman, and would ride Sabio's route with him. "He didn't show me an ID card or anything like that," Sabio later told a reporter, "but there was nothing in his mannerisms that made me think he was anything but another motorman." By riding with Sabio, Keno learned firsthand how to drive the trains, what...
...received a mild admonition for wearing jeans instead of his full uniform, but, says Lieut. Robert Valentino of the New York City transit police, "he looked like a motorman and he acted like a motorman, so they gave him an assignment." Keno dutifully studied the route out to Brooklyn before the 3:58 p.m. departure time...
AALARM's flyer, posted on campus bulletin boards throughout the past week, calls for Harvard's to "Wake up to the AALARM" and accuses "Harvard's cultural elitists" of branding the "Harlem-born, South Brooklyn-raised, Afro American as a "bigot...
Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace is an American classic, an off-beat comedy set in an old-fashioned and "peaceful" house in Brooklyn. This apparently traditional family gradually reveals its many layers of insanity with increasing surprise and suspense. This production coordinates the script's confusion, simultaneous dialogues and misunderstandings with admirable dexterity, and keeps the audience on edge for the whole two hours and 15 minutes...