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...corner of School and Cherry Streets, just a short walk from the Central Square subway station, sits the 95 year-old Margaret Fuller House...
...former writing teacher (Stanford, University of Wyoming) is also a force of corporate profit. Her first two novels were modest successes; her third was Waiting to Exhale, which swept the nation's bedrooms, beaches, hair salons, reading groups and rush-hour subway trains, selling almost 700,000 hard copies in the process and 3 million more in paperback. Numbers like these would have drawn any publisher's attention, of course. The fact that an African-American author was writing about vivid characters with whom many black women could identify had the added effect of proving to booksellers that there...
...could not have been easy for Bernhard Goetz, left--dubbed the "subway gunman" by New York City tabloids--to hear himself referred to in a courtroom as "a nerd, a geek, a peckerwood and a cracker." The author of these epithets: Goetz's own lawyer, Darnay Hoffman, right, pursuing the tactic of insulting one's client before the opposition can. It didn't work: a jury found Goetz liable to the tune of $43 million in the civil lawsuit growing out of his gunning down of four menacing panhandlers in 1984. Other examples of "Don't say that about...
...Goetz filed bankruptcy on Monday to prevent authorities from auctioning off his pet chinchilla and his guinea pig Squeaky. With assets of just over $2,000, Goetz will be hard pressed to pay the $43 million a jury awarded last week to Darrell Cabey, a victim of Goetz's subway shooting incident. The legal action will keep authorities from Goetz's assets until at least mid-June, when a bankruptcy trustee will reviews his debts with creditors. "It prevents a sheriff or marshal and New York State from coming in and just simply ransacking Bernie's house, having a public...
This week was marked by developments which highlight the tangled relations between race, crime and punishment. More than a decade has passed since New York City's most infamous subway assailant, Bernard Goetz, opened fire on four black teenagers who asked him for money. In 1987, three years after the shooting, a jury acquitted Goetz of the most serious criminal charges levelled against him. He was found guilty of only minor weapons charges, and many city residents viewed him as a heroic vigilante who had stood up to "predators," as the four youths were described by Goetz's lawyer, Barry...