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...Eliot Spitzer story begins on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where both his parents grew up. His father Bernard was reared in a tenement with no heat, sharing a bathroom in the hall with the neighbors. Bernard, whose father had been an officer in the Austrian army, was intensely driven. He qualified for an elite school in the city and managed to graduate from City College at 18. A civil engineer by training, he went into real estate and made his fortune. He has constructed about a dozen properties in Manhattan, among them several high-end buildings...
...even self-mocking, with an undercurrent of disquiet. The packed exhibition, titled "Reinterpretation: a Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000)," runs through Jan. 19. It features 166 works by 135 Chinese artists in media that range from paint to sculpture to video recordings of models dressed up as bathroom tiles. Walking the exhibition's three floors is like visiting a classroom of precocious children: each energetic piece insists on your attention. If they aren't as liberated as their Western counterparts, Chinese experimental artists are clearly in the vanguard...
...with its overcrowded dwellings, 88% unemployment and a school-dropout rate of almost 50%. Hollow Horn, 37, and her four children share a three-bedroom home, opposite a landfill, with her mother and stepfather--and seven other relatives. Fourteen people live in the one-story house with a single bathroom. Hollow Horn and her daughter, 9, sleep on a bed in a corner of the basement; her other children sleep on the floor upstairs. Her brother Reginald, 35, who has cancer, sleeps in another corner with his two sons, 10 and 15. It's toughest when the basement floods. "Sometimes...
...extremely baked Harold B. Mackey ’03 recently called HUPD to report the presence of a “mongoose with giant teeth” in his common room. Police responded and, following Mackey’s careful instructions, delicately removed a toothbrush from his bathroom...
...after a 20-second hit of intensely alcoholic Franzia box wine. Declaring himself “Dr. Franzia,” Harris left his room and spent the next hour pretending to teach a class in a basement classroom. He eventually ended up sleeping in a Weld fifth-floor bathroom that he identified, after a long search, as most like his childhood bedroom. Awakened by two police officers, he declared that “school is dumb” and it was “cool if [he] missed the bus” because “dad can take...