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...Bruder, the horrors of 9/11 served as a pivot point into active philanthropy. A real estate developer who calls New York City his hometown, he was particularly interested in tackling the social conditions in the Muslim world that foment support for such violent radicalism--specifically, the lack of jobs. After consulting Middle East scholar Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland, Bruder concluded that the people most resentful of the U.S. were those who were educated but lacked employment. The time he had spent doing business in Northern Ireland confirmed Bruder's notion that the path to peace and democracy...
Other athletically driven looks for early fall include hip-hop-influenced tracksuits and girls' teeny-tiny Soffe brand shorts, which have sporting words like CHEER, SOCCER and SOFTBALL printed across the rear. "They're always worn with the waistband turned down," explains Jennifer Bruder, owner of New York City's Berkley Girl, a tween and teen boutique. In fact, girls often roll them down twice, testing school dress-code limits on short shorts. The must-have shoe to wear with the shorts: equally sporty old-school-styled kicks, especially the groovy retro-looking Puma Mostros New Mesh sneakers...
...convicted in the attack, and sentenced to 30 years in jail. Two years later New York City and the NYC police union paid Louima $8.7 million in settlement of his claims. The three men who allegedly hoped to cover up the crime, Charles Schwarz, Thomas Wiese and Thomas Bruder, were charged and found guilty of obstructing justice. Schwarz, who was identified as the second officer in the bathroom during the attack, was also convicted of violating Louima's civil rights. Thursday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the obstruction-of-justice convictions, citing lack of evidence. Schwarz...
CONVICTED. CHARLES SCHWARZ, 34, THOMAS BRUDER, 33, and THOMAS WIESE, 36, three white police officers; of conspiring to conceal Schwarz's role in the 1997 attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima; in New York City. Schwarz was convicted last year of violating Louima's civil rights by restraining him while another officer sodomized him with a broomstick...
Over the last decade, a spray of new museums of contemporary art has popped up to grapple with that challenge. Miami opened one in 1996, the same year Chicago expanded its version. Last year architect Will Bruder carved one out of a multiplex cinema in Scottsdale, Ariz., and MoCA Denver moved to a 10,000-sq.-ft. permanent home. Cincinnati recently announced that the dynamic female architect Zaha Hadid would design its contemporary arts center. And just last month the biggest of them all, Mass MoCA, opened in North Adams, Mass. Its name is doubly apt: housed in an abandoned...