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...purgatory it is: Customers fidget on purposely distressed leather sofas while they anxiously await admission). All this entrance-intrigue is bathed in the lurid, erotic glow of red lamps clasped in the fangs of ornate snake-candelabra, or coyly veiled in rice paper (wasn’t it Woody Allen who used a red light bulb as a sexual expedient in Annie Hall?). On the far wall hang paintings of frolicking figures in prurient postures, Matissean dancers in revelry. Overhead, Starck-sleek fans of brushed steel revolve with drawing-room languor, conspicuously at odds with the clamor and chatter below...
...After seeing Harvard’s momentous victory, stay over one more night and check out the Eagles/Cardinals game at Veterans Stadium or, even better, see Michael Jordan battle Allen Iverson as the Wizards play the 76ers. Why not make it the complete sports weekend? You might even run into Tom Glavine...
Forrester, a millionaire business owner, stepped up and spent $5 million of his own money to defeat two state senators—Dianne Allen and John Matheussen—for the nomination, but he is still struggling with name recognition, especially against Lautenberg’s well-known status...
...John Allen Muhammad is convicted of these crimes, it will be a grim epilogue to a life spent groping for a narrative. First in the military and then in two marriages, Muhammad, a man who could be by turns charming and stern, seemed to find contentment just out ofreach. And each time he faced a loss, he would fight back--frantically, mercilessly--for control. Two ex-wives have accused him of taking their children over the years. A court granted one of his ex-wives a permanent restraining order after he allegedly threatened to kill her. Acquaintances say he manipulated...
Muhammad--then named John Allen Williams--tried on his first identity in his hometown of Scotlandville, a Mississippi River community in Baton Rouge, La. In high school he was a top football player, says James Johnson, an alumnus of the school who worked with the booster club. "I remember him as a good team player." After graduating in 1978, Williams enlisted in the Louisiana Army National Guard, working as a carpenter and welder in a unit that repaired buildings. Three years later, he married his high school sweetheart, Carol Kaglear, and they had a son, Lindbergh, whom he liked...