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...administration of former Mayor Ed Koch, a single positive toxicology report was enough for authorities to take a newborn from its mother. But a series of cases of mistaken charges of child abuse helped lead to a change of policy under Mayor David Dinkins. In one notorious example, Brooklyn bank clerk Judith Adams lost custody of her child for nearly two months after the medication that doctors gave her during a caesarean section resulted in a false-positive drug test. "Instead of breast feeding my baby, I was looking for lawyers and going to social workers' offices, trying...
...always somebody who couldn't be ignored," says Phil Shinnick, a school chum and currently a research scientist in Brooklyn. "She was queen of the prom and a street fighter. She had an aura about her. She was physically well endowed and always got the best guy." Her beau in those days was Tom Shine, now a Spokane architect. The romance did not last. "We came from different backgrounds," Shine recalled last week. "I knew she wanted to leave Spokane and do other things...
...four, the girl lost her parents in a fire. She moved in with her aunt, Gladys Perry, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, a moonscape of brick towers, security fences, dusty playgrounds, scrawny trees and empty lots. The housing project was the turf of local gangs with names like the Co-ops and the Young Guns, who settle their drug disputes with automatic weapons. When Muslim security guards were hired three years ago, the tribal warfare did not go away. It just changed, pitting the Muslims against the gangs. After a major drug dealer was killed a year ago, many...
...text demands supertitles. And one does miss some of Nixon's stirring climaxes. But none of this should impede Klinghoffer's success. Already the opera has been scheduled by its other co-producers -- the opera companies of Lyon; Glyndebourne, England; San Francisco; and Los Angeles -- as well as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where it opens in September. This broad international debut will serve to confirm Adams, Goodman, Morris and Sellars as the foremost creative team working today on the operatic stage, and perhaps on any stage...
...Brooklyn, N.Y., a 19-year-old moviegoer was killed in an exchange of more than 100 shots, some from an automatic weapon, after he and another youth left a showing of New Jack City to finish an argument. In Las Vegas a brawl involving about 60 people, including members of the Crips and Bloods gangs, broke out at the 9:40 p.m. showing; another flared when the movie was repeated at 11:30; 18 people were arrested. Such eruptions have prompted theaters to post extra guards. At least 10 houses have pulled the movie...