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This month Stacey (Fergie) Ferguson, the female voice of the Black Eyed Peas, gets it started with her first solo album, The Dutchess...
...Dutchess Community College Computer Camp, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. For third-, fourth- and fifth-graders; teaches MS Basic and graphic design for budding compujocks...
...victim in the Tawana Brawley case? Tawana? It was such a parenthetical sadness--though also a stroke of cunning--that she was led to such a degrading fantasy, herself as garbage. But the unambiguous casualty was a white assistant prosecutor from Dutchess County named Steven Pagones. Tawana's was not a harmless lie. Once the story went public, it attracted three professional race men named C. Vernon Mason, Alton Maddox and Al Sharpton, lawyers who arrived to work as Tawana's handlers and to demagogue the case in the media. The three identified Pagones as one of the white rapists...
...beginning of the end, though, came in 1966 when a Dutchess County (New York) assistant D.A. named G. Gordon Liddy raided Leary's Millbrook mansion, which the doctor used courtesy of an Andrew Mellon heir. Two minor-possession arrests eventually landed Leary in a San Luis Obispo, California, prison in 1970, but he escaped with the help of the radical Weather Underground, then materialized among the Black Panthers in Algeria. Betrayed and recaptured in 1973, Leary spent most of the next three years in prison. When he was released, he turned his attentions to SMILE (Space Migration, Increased Intelligence, Life...
Later, in the same finely tuned and almost poetic form of free association, Morrow describes his postoperative period of convalescence at his farm in Dutchess County, New York; a reporting junket to the West Indies with his teenage son; and a cross-country automobile trip with his wife to celebrate the first anniversary of his successful surgery. Several times during his narration, Morrow writes of being invisible--of being, in various contexts, an unseen observer. Everywhere, turbulent memories surface and are recorded with the faithfulness of a man whose search for answers will not be denied. In the end, however...