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...earmarked for early-intervention programs now deemed crucial to real urban-school reform, the state pulled back the money. The school system also failed to tap a $58 million building-construction fund until a girl was seriously burned when a school boiler forced superheated steam through a school toilet, says Nancy Grasmick, state superintendent of education...
...status as a testing ground for a developing liberal response to Republican governance. It all began in late summer, when a Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima was brutalized by New York City police officers. The officers attacked him savagely, first beating him and then sodomizing him with a toilet plunger. During the incident, one of the officers allegedly remarked, "It's Giuliani time,"suggesting that the Mayor had embraced a laissez faire attitude toward police brutality. Finally, the embattled New York liberals had their issue...
...felt a bit implicated by your assertion that Deepak Chopra, my dad, has "little familiarity with family life as most Americans live it" [FAMILY, Sept. 22]. I was not aware that drinking from the toilet, balloon animals spawned from condoms, and tongue studs constitute the American family experience. More to the point, despite having passed through my own phases of growing pains, tattoos and flunking two college courses, I have, at 22, managed to graduate from Columbia University, publish a novel, embark on my own adult journey and find some time to feel grateful to both my parents for teaching...
That might have been true even without any feuding. Many legal insiders--not all of them partisans of Hunter's--believe that, as the police source puts it, "the case went down the toilet in the first five hours." From the beginning, it was obvious that the cops who were called to investigate what was initially reported as a kidnapping had allowed contamination of evidence that might have been found at the crime scene. Detective Linda Arndt waited hours for a ransom call that never came before ordering a search of the house. She gave that order not to other...
Others held plungers-in view until the forum had ended-which was a reference to the alleged NYPD beating of a Haitian immigrant using a toilet plunger...