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...September 11, HarperCollins will publish "On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald and 9/11" by Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of the brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald, and Tom Barbash. Cantor Fitzerald suffered the largest number of casualties in the September 11 attacks. According to the publisher, "every member of Lutnick's young firm who was in the office that morning - nearly 700 traders and salespeople, lawyers and accountants, 164 of his partners, including his brother Gary and his best friend Doug - perished in the North Tower." The book details how the surviving employees have been able to keep the company...
Director Uri Barbash depicts an Israeli prison holding both Jewish and Arab prisoners. The obvious animosity between the inmates is contrasted with their joint contempt for the prison administration. The Jewish and Arab leaders come to the realization that the jail wardens thrive on the inter-ethnic competition that they intentionally foster. Arnon Zadok and Muhamed Bakri are wellcast as the brutal leaders of the two inmate groups. Their rivalry climaxes during a bloody fight, after which they join together in a hunger strike...
Beyond the Walls asks the vital question of who the real enemy is. While the plot runs a typical route, Barbash succeeds in portraying many of the brutal realities of prison life. Israeli pop singer Boaz Sharabi makes a cameo appearance as an incarcerated musician. The moving film received an Academy Award nomination for the Best Foreign Film...
...campaigns against licensing of the Seabrook and Shoreham plants, arguing that what happened north of Kiev could just as easily happen there. "The accident at Chernobyl makes it clear," said Ellyn Weiss, general counsel of the Cambridge, Mass.-based Union of Concerned Schentists. "Nuclear power is inherently dangerous." Maurice Barbash is a builder who heads a Long Island citizens' group opposed to Shoreham. Last week he was more determined than ever to stop the project. Said he: "I don't see how they could license Shoreham right now. To do so would be madness...
...they loved Bobby Barbash, the hotel emcee, who before the show each night sang, "After the Loving" and "I Did it My Way." He belted out those songs, imitating Dean Martin, every single night to rousing applause and a few wet eyes. Bobby could do not wrong--spill steaming coffee down Bertha's back, or worse, call the same bingo number twice in a row--the man in the wallpaper tuxedo was the perfect son who never left mother and sang to her every single night of her life...