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...Sistani's intransigence and insistence on the U.N.'s involvement forced Bremer to rip up his plans. In mid-January, Bremer flew to New York and met in the basement of the United Nations building with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Greenstock and several members of the Governing Council. Annan became convinced the Americans would defer to the U.N. on the transition to Iraqi sovereignty. Annan assigned his envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, to go to Iraq to help piece together the interim government and figure out whether direct elections were really feasible in 2004. Brahimi and U.N. election expert Carla Perelli...
DIED. HOWARD SOLOMON, 75, former owner of Cafe au Go Go, the basement nightclub in Greenwich Village where the comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested on obscenity charges in 1964; of a heart attack; in Crestline, Calif. Five years after being arrested with Bruce, Solomon sold his club and moved to Florida, where he worked as a real estate developer...
...Wonderful Town" is based on "My Sister Eileen," the 1942 hit Broadway comedy about two sisters, intellectual Ruth and blond knockout Eileen, who emigrate from Ohio to a basement flat in Greenwich Village - Ruth looking to be a writer, Eileen with dreams of musical stardom. The musical version, composed by Leonard Bernstein and lyricists Comden and Green, arrived on Broadway in 1953, with Rosalind Russell as Ruth and Edith Adams (later Ernie Kovacs' Edie Adams) as Eileen. The show, which lasted a year, didn't spawn the hits that Bernstein's "On the Town" and "West Side Story...
...meeting room in the basement of the Lombardi Municipal Building, the Cambridge License Commission unanimously approved his request to extend the hours of three restaurants to 2 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights...
...thing that is for sure is that Wolcowitz, who relocated in January to Gross’ former office, will move downstairs with his two-person staff to the basement level of University Hall this summer to make room for more reconfigurations in administrators’ office space...