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While civilians are encouraged to read and professional poets show up, it's the cops who are causing the interest, maybe because of contributions like this one from Officer Linda Griffith: "He allows me to walk [amid] the danger./He lets me extend help to a stranger./My flesh crawls and I miss him when he's not under my wing./I don't let people see or touch him, it's a private thing./So you should be grateful and understand what I've done./If and when I let you touch the butt...
...LIGHTER NOTE: Yappy Hour, from the owners of celebrity-pet haunt Three Dog Bakery; The Doggie Fashion Show--part of the networking luncheon--featuring faux-fur coats and multicolored raincoats. Pucci would be jealous...
...police vernacular, Gidone Busch was an "EDP"--an emotionally disturbed person. His medical records show that he believed he was directed by God to save drug addicts and exotic dancers, that his friends were prophets and that he was the messiah. When the police were called in last week, he was menacing children in a predominantly Hasidic Jewish section of Brooklyn, and he attacked the cops with a claw hammer. The police shot him to death with 12 bullets. Should they have just maimed Busch to subdue him? New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said, "When [police] make a decision...
...easy it is to make friends at college. It was, plain and simple, a recruiting mission. "By letting current students tell their stories," says Donald Bremme, associate professor of education and faculty coordinator of Whittier's program, "we hope to catch younger kids before the alternative attractions show...
There have been few arguments for corporal punishment as strong as this unintentionally depressing dramedy of domestic self-absorption. But it's hard to say who could use it most: the casually amoral kids, who spend half the show delivering know-it-all voiceovers? The whiny parents? The sex-talkin' grandma? Actually, it may be the show's makers, who have piled on a media-studies dissertation's worth of trendy fourth-wall-breaking, belabored pop references and defensive, reflexive asides: "I know what you're thinking," goes one. "This is another one of those smart-ass shows where...