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Fifth-grader Dylan Samson, 10, attended P.S. 89, a school near the Twin Towers; now students from that school and P.S. 150 are sharing facilities at P.S. 3. "It's just really crammed in and hard there," says Dylan. "You're with such a big class. It's very noisy. I can barely hear myself think. They don't even have soap in the bathrooms. It makes me feel kind of a little crazy." Says artist Sharon Sprague, Dylan's mother: "Some classes don't have tables or desks. The kids are doing their work on the floor...
Kate Paine, a Harvard Law School graduate and ambitious employee at the high-powered office of Samson & Mills, is at the center of this legal-thriller. She is a first-year associate looking to pay her dues and eventually move up in the firm's hierarchy. Assigned to a new and controversial case, Kate is thrilled to be working with some of the senior partners, until the unexpected murder of one of Samson & Mills' female partners, Madeline Waters. While Kate is busy navigating firm politics, she gradually realizes that Madeline's murderer may in fact be among those...
...Fuller wrote. "He that wants it hath a maimed mind... nor is it good to converse with such as cannot be angry, and with the Caspian Sea never ebb and flow." But Fuller set up sensible rules, such as this: "Take heed of doing irrevocable acts in thy passion... Samson's hair grew again, but not his eyes." He acknowledged the disfigurement: "Had Narcissus himself seen his own face when he had been angry, he could never have fallen in love with himself...
DIED. HEDY LAMARR, 86, sultry actress; in Orlando, Fla. The Viennese-born Lamarr (the star of Samson and Delilah) also shared a 1942 patent for a device that prevented radio-controlled torpedoes from having their signals jammed (see Eulogy...
...story of Liberty Heights is, very simply, the account of a summer in the '60's, where two boys, Van (Adrien Brody) and Ben (Ben Foster) are growing up in a very traditional Jewish family. Their grandmother believes that the most salient point in the story of Samson and Delilah is that Samson killed all the goyim. Their father, Nate, runs a gambling racket disguised as a strip-joint. At the same time, the two boys are being exposed to a world beyond that of the traditional Jewish one--older son Van is seduced by the WASPish world of white...