Word: sinkler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ought to Be, has topped the New York Times best- seller list for 16 of the past 20 weeks, but the Times has never reviewed it. RUSH LIMBAUGH says the paper doesn't like his politics. The Times says it's the book. Says Times Book Review editor Rebecca Sinkler: "This is not the sort of book that usually finds its way into our pages. Though I suppose if we had known that it was going to be at the top of the best-seller list for weeks and weeks and weeks...
...writers, publishers or literary agents, or somehow involved in the publishing world. Some of them write controversial things, such as Robert Bly ("a minor poet" who became a big deal with Iron John) and others merely head up the monoliths of the literary world, such as Rebecca Sinkler at the New York Times Book Review...
...last week that Tyrone Sinkler and his friend Ian Moore, 17, were shot to death in a corridor of their Brooklyn high school, New York City Mayor David Dinkins was on his way to lecture the students about self-esteem. The mayor would speak under a banner bearing some words of Martin Luther King Jr.: "The choice today is not between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence." It was a gun, of course, that dispatched Martin Luther King to nonexistence nearly 24 years...
...Tyrone Sinkler and Ian Moore were standing in a hall of Thomas Jefferson High School, not far from the mayor's security detail. Another student, named Khalil Sumpter, who is 15, allegedly pulled out a .38-cal. revolver and shot Tyrone and Ian at point-blank range. Sumpter had apparently had fistfights with the other boys for weeks. All three had arrest records for robbery and mugging...
Absurdly easy to buy, guns become a teenage consumer's accessory -- a Raven P-25 pistol or a Smith & Wesson .38, like the one Sumpter allegedly used. That gun was stolen from the car of a campus police officer in New Jersey, police said. "Around here," James Sinkler says, "kids carry guns like other people carry cigarettes." Taking a life in medieval England was the King's prerogative. Now every kid a king...