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...location: New York City. If you can make it there, the self-obsessed Big Apple media often assume, you can make it anywhere. And now they're saying it about Michael Bloomberg, another solid local performer who wouldn't get a second look if he hailed from Tampa Bay. Bloomberg has made the covers of both Time and Newsweek, the latter promising that his would be "one of the most significant third-party bids for the White House in American history." "He will not run to be a spoiler," one of his aides told the New York Times. That...
When she saw Letterman picketing, Shore was crushed. "I watched him from the bay window here," she would recall years later, frail and shaking from a nervous disorder and sitting in the empty showroom at the Comedy Store. "I was taken aback. I was crying. Three and a half years working with him, every night. I called him that night at his apartment. I was totally choked up. And he said, 'Those comedians are my friends. And they'll be my friends for the rest of my life.' I said, 'I'm sorry to hear that, David.'" Says Argus Hamilton...
...crushed the night Letterman - one of her favorites, the kid from Indiana whom she took under her wing and, she claimed, had talked into staying when he wanted to go back home - showed up on the picket line. "I watched him in the bay window here," Mitzi would recall years later. "I was taken aback. I was crying. Three and a half years working with him, every night. I called him that night at his apartment. I was totally choked up. And he said, 'Those comedians are my friends. And they'll be my friends for the rest...
Hundreds of "enemy combatants" continue to be held in U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay and possibly other secret U.S. prisons overseas. Despite a raft of Supreme Court cases designed to obtain the detainees additional legal rights, as many as 100 of them are expected to be tried this spring in military commissions that limit both public disclosure and the latitude accorded lawyers in defending them...
...pizza, they can tell the difference," he says. On his public TV series, Secrets of a Chef, one of the three recipes in each episode is a burger. Keller is shocked at how popular burgers are, having opened his Las Vegas Burger Bar only as a favor to Mandalay Bay hotel and casino, which also houses his second Fleur de Lys restaurant. "Five years ago, nobody thought of putting their name on a burger joint. I was gambling," he said. "I thought the press would fire back and say the man has made four-star restaurants his entire life...