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DIED. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, 80, trailblazing Congresswoman and candidate for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination; in Ormond Beach, Fla. The first black woman to sit in Congress, she championed such concerns of her underprivileged Brooklyn constituency as day-care funding and minimum wages for domestic workers. Describing herself as "unbought and unbossed," she criticized Congress as being run by "a small group of old men" and protested the "petrified" seniority system that initially placed her on the Agriculture Committee...
...YORK—In diving for a loose ball late in the second half, Rogus had his shorts yanked from his hips. But against Long Island University in Brooklyn on Dec. 22, a well-prepared Crimson team was far from being caught with its collective pants down...
...YORK—In diving for a loose ball late in the second half, senior guard Kevin Rogus had his shorts yanked from his hips. But against Long Island University in Brooklyn last night, a well-prepared Harvard team was far from being caught with its collective pants down...
Counselor Georgine Brown-Thompson remembers "empty PTA halls" before introducing HIP to Walt Whitman Middle School 246 in Brooklyn three years ago. "We've seen PTA attendance rise from five to 164," she says. The school was on the brink of financial ruin in 2001 when 127 parents opted for student transfers under the No Child Left Behind legislation. "Our school was being left behind," Brown-Thompson says. After HIP's introduction, 110 parents changed their mind, saving the school $1.3 million in funding it would have lost if the students had left...
...land between popular and literary fiction is fertile, but it can be perilous. Lethem is no stranger to it. He won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for Motherless Brooklyn, which is basically a hard-boiled mystery retrofitted with great writing and highfalutin themes. Most of the stories in Men and Cartoons play in the nerdier realms of comic books and science fiction--one revolves around a mysterious aerosol spray that reveals lost belongings and lost lovers; another recounts the sad, seedy later life of a retired comic-book hero named Super Goat Man. But while Chabon builds...