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...neck injury, he can't do heavy manual labor--a common problem among former inmates, who, because of their intimate history with violence and needles, tend to have far more medical problems than average Americans. He responded to an ad in the paper for a bathroom-attendant firm in Manhattan. Impressed by Sanders' demeanor, the interviewer said his record was no problem. But the jobs were off the books, a forbidden arrangement under his parole conditions. He paid for a security-guard training course and aced the test, only to find out later that security firms don't like...
...work got even harder. He had a second interview for a janitor job at a Brooklyn YMCA but was finally told he was "too good for the job." "What does that mean? Was I dressed too nicely?" he says. In October he broke down crying in an elevator in Manhattan after being rejected for a messenger...
...accessory on Julia Roberts' red-carpet tour. Now he's commanding his own spotlight with a revelatory performance in Pinero. In this sordid, vibrant and true story, Bratt stars as Miguel Pinero, the Puerto Rican playwright, unrehabilitated ex-con, junkie and cautionary figure. In 1988, 14 years after founding Manhattan's Nuyorican Poets Cafe and gathering acclaim for his Tony-nominated play Short Eyes, Pinero died of cirrhosis...
CLEARED. ROBERT TORRICELLI, 50, Democratic New Jersey Senator alleged to have accepted illegal gifts from donor David Chang; after three years of investigation by U.S. prosecutors, who declined to file charges. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White referred material from the probe to the Senate Ethics Committee...
With Harvard ahead 9-4 just over five minutes into the game, freshman center Reka Cserny, the Crimson’s second-leading scorer, picked up her second foul. In recent games against Northeastern and Manhattan, Cserny’s foul trouble spelled doom for Harvard’s first half...