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There have always been children who are survivors, who overcome the odds and find some adult -- a teacher, a grandparent, a priest -- who can provide the anchors the family could not. Toure Diggs, 18, grew up in a rough neighborhood of New Haven, Conn., and is now enrolled at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Since his parents separated three years ago, Toure has tried to help raise his brother Landis, who is 7. In the end Toure knows he is competing with the lure of the street for Landis' soul. "You got to start so young," Toure says. "It's like...
...Brooklyn house painter, Yetnikoff joined CBS Records as a lawyer in 1961 and rose to the president's job by 1975. He proved to be a superb negotiator, a world-class schmoozer and a self-described "rabbi, priest, marriage counselor, banker and shrink" to the leading rock stars. As the years wore on, however, Yetnikoff seemed to relish waging wars on those he felt were disloyal...
Investigative journalist William Bastone, who is writing a book about Gigante and his younger brother Louis, a controversial Roman Catholic priest, says he believes Chin really has gone mad in recent years. Gigante is now undergoing a couchful of psychiatric tests, and a federal judge may rule next month on whether he is competent to stand trial. Until then, he rests in a locked unit at a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York. His brother is outraged at the federal prosecutors. "If I had an American flag in front of me, I would spit on it and burn it," shouted...
...point of keen speculation is whether Gigante talks business with his younger brother Louis, a cussing, cigar-chomping, Roman Catholic priest who is celebrated for overseeing the creation of 2,000 low-income housing units. That reputation has been tarnished by accusations that Father Gigante's nonprofit group doled out tens of millions of dollars in government housing grants to Genovese-tied subcontractors. The priest claims he had nothing to do with the selection of these companies. "I purposely stayed out of it," he says. But the priest does commend one contractor, a Genovese captain who is now imprisoned...
...says a friend, "suddenly realized he was quite bright." Carey eventually earned a Ph.D., specializing in the early church fathers. He has taught at three Evangelical seminaries and was principal of Trinity College, Bristol, when he was named a bishop. He also served two stretches as a parish priest, and advocates an innovation giving bishops the power to weed out lazy and incompetent pastors. Carey is chairman of the important Faith and Order Advisory Group, which deals with church doctrinal issues...