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Hamill fell at his Brooklyn home Saturday after returning from dialysis, his brother, writer Denis Hamill, told The Post. He was in intensive care at Methodist Hospital — the same place he was born — when “his kidneys and heart failed him,” the brother said. In 1960, the high school dropout began working as a reporter for the Post where he “began to learn his craft,” according to his online biography. He penned columns for the Post for 12 years and worked as a columnist for Newsday, Village Voice and the New York Daily News. He also wrote for Esquire,...

Toogood Reports [Weekender, November 3, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ After having been constantly told that the sniper was a white, Christian male, we are confronted with a main suspect who is a "military veteran" (mumble, black Moslem, mumble). Although the suspects are both black, we have been told by white, liberal journalists such as Pete Hamill and black civilians alike, that black folks really don't need this to be about race. And although we know that John Allen Muhammad/Williams is a Moslem, we now know that not only race, but Islam was a non-factor in the sniper case. We...

Toogood Reports [Wednesday, October 30, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Well, I guess I had it all wrong. It seems that race was a non-factor in the Beltway Sniper case. I know that, because New York Daily News columnist Pete Hamill told me so. In a race-obsessed column, Hamill informed the reader again and again, that this was not about race. "During the three frenzied weeks after the first sniper killing, almost none of the media profilers and experts suggested that the sniper might be black. The American imagination was filled by images of crazy white people, snarling and enraged,...