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...friends and enemies of Newark mayor Sharpe James can agree on one thing about him: he knows how to toss a mean birthday party. The annual shindigs in honor of Hizzoner are renowned for the open bar, catered buffet and Vegas-caliber pizazz. On one occasion, the glad-handing Democratic politician glided dramatically into the darkened room at the wheel of a vintage sports car. Another time he motored across a bed of ice on a growling snowmobile. At $200 a seat, or $500 during re-election years, the admission price was considered cheap because it also bought...
...mayor indulged in a 59th birthday tribute earlier this year, but attendance was so low that some tables had to be removed. Even the guest of honor was subdued. "He looked like he was going through the motions, that's all," said one of the partygoers. "It reminded me more of a wake...
...investigation focuses on how the mayor and the Sharpe James Civic Association spent an estimated $3 million from nearly a decade of fund-raising activities, and on a series of bank loans the mayor received. If the admission fees for James' birthday parties and other events had been spent for political campaigning, James would have been legally bound to report them to the state election authorities. If, as James claims, they went to charitable causes, the mayor has another kind of explaining to do. Since 1986, when he was first elected mayor, James has bought a $160,000 yacht...
...joint mission aboard the Mir space stationin a celebratory mood. Pulling on the shirt, Solavyev, who became a Rockets fan while training for the mission at the Johnson Space Center, took advantage of gravity-free conditions to vault over his fellow spacemen. Astronaut Norman Thagard, who celebrated his 52nd birthday aboard the MIR space station feeling like "a lab rat" as fellow astronauts collected blood and other biological samples, said he wished he could have brought his wife along. When the two giant spacecraft undock on Tuesday, two of the MIR cosmonauts will film the maneuver from a small Soyuz...
...Grady's family kept an anxious vigil all week. "When you're not in control of a situation that involves a person you love with all your heart, you go crazy," said Stacey, who was born on Scott's third birthday in 1968. That was an audacious usurpation of the limelight for which her older brother, she says, never quite forgave her and that, until now, he has been unable to undo. "You grasp for hope and a prayer." Plus one other thing. During the final two nights of O'Grady's ordeal, Stacey slept with her brother...