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...rioting which was precipitated in Crown Heights in 1991 was in response to the death of a black child, Gavin Cato, who was run over by a Hasidic Jewish driver. The rioting resulted in the fatal stabbing of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic doctoral student who had no other relation to the man who accidentally ran over the child than a shared religion. For his shared religion. For his shared religious beliefs, Rosenbaum was attacked by between 10 and 15 black youths as he crossed the street...
...fatal flowers had been addressed to "Brandis," the online name used by Marlene Stumpf in a monthlong E-mail correspondence with "TheKing610." Last Tuesday, "TheKing610" revealed himself to be Howard Eskin, 45, an abrasive Philadelphia TV and radio sportscaster nicknamed Pain in the Airwaves. "All I was trying to do was brighten her day," he told his radio audience. "I sensed loneliness. I sensed despair." Her E-mail messages, he said, were "somewhat provocative" but "not X-rated stuff...
...trial, Attorney General Janet Reno reopened the case in 1994 under fierce pressure from Jewish organizations who argued the attack was religiously motivated. Rosenbaum, who wore the traditional garb of an Hasidic Jew, was randomly attacked on the street as black mobs ran amok a few hours after a fatal car accident involving a 7-year-old black boy and a Lubavitcher Hasidim motorcade. Although prosecution witnesses testified that Nelson had told friends he was responsible for the murder, defense lawyers countered that police had forced Nelson to confess to the crime under duress and had planted a bloody knife...
...periods of strong play looked as if they might be lost by another third period letdown. This time, however, the letdown. This time, however, the letdown was not fatal...
...after all, he is only one man. The U.S. kept ticking away when Dwight Eisenhower suffered from serious illnesses. When Ronald Reagan was severely wounded, the government kept working. The diagnosis of Francois Mitterrand's ultimately fatal cancer early in his presidential term didn't stop France from functioning...