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...third straight year, in what has become my own rite of spring, I eagerly eschewed tropical lures to make the five-hour trek from Albany down to eastern Long Island to spend a couple of days holed up in a friend’s basement bunker. Armed with various forecasting publications, reams of statistics and an unhealthy knowledge of the positional depth charts of all 16 National League franchises, we set about carefully assigning dollar values to every player in the N.L. based upon our projections of their 2006 performance. The goal was to develop an approximate plan of action?...
...poses new obstacles.“The most challenging thing was the very first day,” Streep confesses about her first movie with Altman. “When I came to work, the director told me, ‘We’re down here in this basement and there are three cameras and there are 17 mirrors and we’re going to shoot the first 10 pages.’”She acknowledges her status, as well as her stage fright: “As intrepid as actors are, and as long...
...Restaurant Group will completely renovate the Finagle location. The street level space will feature a counter café with short-order offerings such as sandwiches, salads, and crêpes for sit-in or take-out service. A full-service restaurant and bar will be located in the basement level, and an outdoor terrace will be created in an adjacent vacant space. The menu will feature “the kind of food that you would get if you went to a chef’s house for dinner,” said the Z Restaurant Group’s primary...
...wife, of bludgeoning the investment banker to death after serving him a milkshake laced with sedatives. Andrew Kissel, who faced federal and state charges that he defrauded lenders of $11 million and bilked a Manhattan real estate cooperative out of $4 million, was discovered tied up in the basement of his rental house with multiple stab wounds. He was expected to plead guilty this month to grand larceny and serve a prison term...
...According to the Times, the Kissels bickered in front of them. (The paper quoted Hayley Kissel telling one of the movers, "He's going to jail anyway.") Monday morning, when the J.B. Moving employees went back to finish the job, they found Andrew's body in the blood-spattered basement. His hands and feet were bound, and his T shirt had been pulled over his head. There were no signs the killer or killers had to force their way in, police...