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While parts of Chautauqua are serene, Jamestown is a small, beaten-down city where for years drugs and homelessness have made their mark. Authorities say Williams moved to the community in 1995 to see family and allegedly to sell narcotics. A self-proclaimed member of the Bloods street gang and widely disliked by his Brooklyn neighbors, Williams has eight arrests and three convictions behind him. In Jamestown he seems to have used his urban of-the-street credibility to impress the disaffected girls he picked up in local parks. Chautauqua investigators believe in some cases Williams may have bartered drugs...
...seeming like the right place to more and more pop songwriters. Paul Simon is putting the finishing touches on his first Broadway musical, The Capeman, based on the life of a New York City teen convicted of a gang murder in 1959. Elton John wrote most of the songs for The Lion King, a stage version of the hit movie, opening on Broadway next week. Jimmy Buffett has tried his hand at a musical--Don't Stop the Carnival, which had a successful run last spring in Miami--and so has Randy Newman, whose musical version of Faust is shopping...
Demographics show, furthermore, that the cognitive and moral abilities of juvenile delinquents are disproportionately impaired by drug addiction, gang-mentality, developmental delays, mental illness, moral ambiguity, socialization in a culture of violence and psychological trauma often stemming from abuse or neglect. The story of the 15-year old New Jersey teenager charged with sexually assaulting and strangling an 11-year old neighbor boy is all too common: sexually assaulted by a pedophile, the teenager turned around and inflicted harm on someone even more helpless than himself...
...hopes of furthering this proposal, I am suggesting that you extend invitations to the following persons: Wang Juntao, Tong Yi and Liu Gang, who have all spent years in Chinese prisons for merely expressing their political opinions in China...
...Undertaker is a first-person account, told from the undertaker's perspective, of a visit from a mother who has just lost her son in a gang- or drug-related slaying. The undertaker is charged with steeling himself against the gore, the blood and the tragedy in order to reconstruct the destroyed face and "exploded head" of the victim, so his mother's "dreams of her baby / in tuxedoed satin" can be fulfilled. Libert and Parker intersperse video of Smith's recitation of the poem with shadowy figures, discreet images of hands molding flesh onto the skull underneath and childhood...