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...larger point, however, is that the hubris and destructiveness during these U.S. peaks of a money culture and stock market indexes has been palpable. This was true in the two eras discussed, and also in the similar late 19th century "Gilded Age" of Vanderbilt, Morgan, Carnegie and Astor and the emerging fortunes in railroads, steel...
...also an adjunct member of the Department of the History of Science. Since 1996, he has also served as Astor visiting research professor of biology at New York University...
...also an adjuct member of Harvard’s Department of the History of Science. Since 1996, he has also served as Astor visiting research professor of biology at New York University...
DIED. DAVID ASTOR, 89, liberal editor, from 1948 to 1975, of the Observer, his family's Sunday paper and Britain's oldest; in London. He used the paper to champion his friend Nelson Mandela, condemn Britain's attempt to take the Suez Canal from Egypt, and print, without advertisements, Nikita Khrushchev's 26,000-word denunciation of Stalin...
...That's where his combination of enlightening and lightening up comes in handy. Yan Ming's balancing act between sage and giddy child, strict shifu and Drunken Master, endears him to everyone from the garbagemen in Astor Place to the frosty gatekeepers at Soho's snootiest watering holes. "I'm in it for my health," says Derrick Waller, a musclebound N.Y.P.D. detective, "and because shifu is mad cool." Rosie Perez and Wesley Snipes take regular lessons. Musicians Bjork and Tricky drop in when they're in town. And the RZA, the mastermind behind rap collective Wu Tang Clan, checks...