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UNLIKE SABREENA, DAN KNAPP NEVER RAN away or openly clashed with his adoptive mother. "He never gave me a problem. He just made me proud," says Jackie Knapp, 53, a single mom who is the education director at a Christian center in Elmira, N.Y. Placed in foster care at age 9 after his father died and his mother was unable to care for him on her own, Dan moved in with Jackie and her parents the next year. Now 24, he still remembers the meeting he attended in which his birth mother told the social worker that she was relinquishing...
...heart. His wife Marlene found him slumping to the floor moments later and pulled the blade from his chest, but he was dead in minutes. There was no suicide note; explanations were unnecessary. Federal prosecutors seemed poised to indict Manes in the biggest New York scandal since the Knapp Commission uncovered police corruption...
...this team is not who is here, but who has left. Gone is Ivy Player of the Year Jewel Clark and head coach Kelly Greenberg. After 18 years in D.C., Pat Knapp left Georgetown to take the helm of the Quakers, and will have a solid, if lackluster, backcourt at his disposal. Junior Jennifer Fleischer was featured in the Nov. 11 issue of SI On Campus as a “glue gal,” or a player that does the little things to bind her team. She may be a “glue...
Luxury quotient: She has focused on shedding the brand's Liberace image. This fall Swarovski is exhibiting "Rocks on the Runway"--a show featuring its work with jewelers like Fiona Knapp and Danilo. Arrivederci, Liberace...
DIED. WHITMAN KNAPP, 95, irascible federal judge who led the commission that exposed police corruption in New York City in the early 1970s; in New York City. Mayor John Lindsay recruited the onetime editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1970 to head what would become the Knapp Commission. The report by Knapp's 30member team led to the establishment of an undercover anticorruption unit in the police department--and a featured part for the commission in the popular 1973 film Serpico. After the inquiry, President Nixon appointed Knapp to the federal bench, where he served until his death...