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...honey, do we really need any more philosophical tofu?" (Henry Featherless and his wife Glenda are browsing in the Just Barely Books store at the shopping mall. He flips through a demure volume she has chosen, suppresses a snicker and gives her the business.) "Says here on the dust jacket, Itty- Bitty Insights, Part...
...police transcripts show that the officers involved apparently joked and laughed about the incident with the dispatcher. "Intoxicated Asian, naked male. Was returned to his sober boyfriend," said a policeman, who added that his partner "is going to get deloused." Glenda Cleveland, whose daughter and niece initially spotted Sinthasomphone on the street, later called the police and repeatedly asked what had been done about the "child." One of the officers who had been at the scene responded, "It wasn't a child, it was an adult . . . It is all taken care of . . . It's a boyfriend-boyfriend thing...
...trio of advisers has manipulated the case into a long-running multimedia sensation. Last week the affair was the centerpiece for an extraordinary episode of TV's Phil Donahue show. The one-hour broadcast was shot on location in Brooklyn's Bethany Baptist Church, where Brawley's mother Glenda, 33, had ensconced herself to avoid arrest on a contempt-of-court charge resulting from her refusal to obey a grand-jury subpoena...
Without Brawley's testimony and some additional evidence to support it, it appears that the only person who will be prosecuted in the case is Glenda Brawley, Tawana's mother, who is living in a church to avoid imprisonment on a contempt charge. She refused to respond to a subpoena from a grand jury investigating the case, on the advice of Sharpton, Mason and Maddox...
...declared at week's end that unless the Brawleys turn about and tell what they know, the "investigation is not going to succeed." Given the prospect of thwarted justice, it was hard to argue with the view expressed by Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, who also is black, about Glenda Brawley's new status as a fugitive. "I don't think any purpose would be served by locking up the mother," he said. "The rule of law is important, but this is a unique and strange situation...