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Just then, the music starts. In an instant, the adolescent mob is transformed into a congregation. All heads turn toward the worship band, a lo-fi rock combo of 13- and 14-year-olds led by middle school minister Brian Dietz, 28. Many kids shut their eyes, some sway from side to side and sing along with the rock ballad. "Open the eyes of my heart, Lord," they sing. "I want...
...among them was Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, the 1984 Nobel laureate, who took an important role in the drive to control the savagery of some of the violence. In July he saved the life of a black man suspected of being a police informant, after an angry mob had seized the man, set his car ablaze and tried to throw him into the flames. Tutu scolded a crowd of 30,000, threatening to "pack up and leave this beautiful country that I love so passionately and so deeply." Privately, he later said, "I am really scared...
...earth, air and firewater. The boozy, bemused uncle of the theater sees a parade of greats. He applauds Jimmy Durante, discovers Bob Hope and Groucho Marx, and collects parodies of a Cole Porter lyric: "Night and day under the bark of me/ There's an Oh, such a mob of microbes making a park of me." The critic does not always twinkle; even Eugene O'Neill is regarded without awe because "no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously." As this rare and delightful scrapbook proves, O'Neill's was one affliction Benchley would never suffer...
After interviewing some fellow passengers, Alexander returned to Newark several times, including the post-Thanksgiving weekend, when hundreds were stranded in the jammed terminal. "I hadn't been in a mob like that since I went to see the Rolling Stones at Boston Garden in 1969," he says. "There weren't enough seats in the place, so in order to get where the people were I did interviews sitting on the floor...
...that wanted to charge him with embezzling funds from his Cleveland local, the Justice Department last year decided not to prosecute. A federal grand jury is now probing the reasons for this decision. One reported explanation was that Presser had been used by the FBI as an informant on Mob activities...