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    "Hey, Mr. Deejay: Bend over and spread 'em."

    By Lois Beckett

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    Big Farma

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    By Matt Snyders

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    We begin our countdown of New York's Ten Worst Landlords.

    By Elizabeth Dwoskin

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    The Grow House Murder

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    By Gail Shepherd

The Haunted Holy Man

Catholic bishop Joe Durick was a civil rights hero. But alcoholism and accusations of infidelity proved his ruin

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Joseph Sweat

Published on November 22, 2001

Now and again one of my old comrades, a veteran of the civil rights wars, will recall saying to Joe Durick: “Hey, Bishop, when is the church gonna make you a cardinal and send you off to Rome?”