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Late last night, a square in one of the city?s grittiest neighborhoods erupted in shouting and yelling. The noise reverberated throughout nearby streets, attracting curious or even some slightly frightened passersby. Scores of bare-chested men, swirling their shirts over their heads, were chanting ?Iraq! Iraq! Iraq...
...bare facts: Phyllis Adams Kirkland Jenkins was born into privilege on the East Side of Manhattan in 1923; came of age in a dazzling period for New York society; trod the boards as a young actress; reported on the Nuremberg trials of top Nazis; helped pioneer the daytime talk show; married a handsome actor and then an even handsomer designer of sets for stage and screen; gave unstintingly to Amnesty International and other worthy charities; left behind a loving, lovely family and a host of bereft friends...
...basically bisecting the market," says Matt Snowling, a brokerage analyst at investment firm Friedman Billings Ramsey. For folks with more than $150,000 to invest, firms like Merrill and Smith Barney offer comprehensive financial services. On the low end, bare-bones firms like ETrade and Ameritrade are happy with clients that do not expect advice and have only a few thousand dollars...
...digitally scanned each able-bodied citizen of Menzies (about 130 of them at the time), tweaked their dimensions on a computer screen, and cast their skeletal cores in a mix of stainless steel and trace elements found at the lake. What we get is a town reduced to its bare bones - "boobs" and all. (By drastically slenderizing his subjects, Gormley makes these and other intimate appendages protrude like sausages on sticks.) But if outsiders care to linger with these Insiders - and the roadhouse guest book indicates that they do, coming all the way from New York or Dublin...
...Vegas has upped not only the sex but the violence as well. Boxing has been outdrawn by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (U.F.C.), a chain-link-caged, rule-free (unless you count "no biting, no eye-gouging"), bare-knuckle competition so bloody it once was decried by Senator John McCain and the American Medical Association, banned by New York State and dropped by pay-per-view cable. Match results are covered by the Las Vegas Review Journal's sports pages. At a bout last month, audience members included Shaquille O'Neal (who the owners say once asked them to change...