Spine of the City DOMINIC PREZIOSI Jimmy Breslin had been a columnist for a long time when New York’s notorious Son of Sam shooter contacted him in the summer of 1977. “J. B.,” the...
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Command Performance DAN BARRY First we removed our shoes. We aligned them neatly along the hallway wall, applying meaningless order to the moment.Then we gave our apologetic knock. A friend of our...
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BOOKS Christmas Critics Dan Barry The books beside my bed, stacked like bricks laid by an addled mason, suggest that I possess either a broad curiosity or an inability to focus. Where were we? Oh...
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Sunday Obligation Practicing the Faith, One Jump Shot at a Time Dan Barry Another wintry Sunday morning at seven. And in the bifurcated building of a century-old Catholic parish called St....
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A REPORTER'S STORY School, an all-girls public school where she thrived academically and socially, becoming close for the first time with one of her older sisters and making her first close white...
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