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...down to parking-meter attendants and sewer inspectors, along with judges, Congressmen and state legislators, have been found guilty. U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, the Republicans' white knight, claims more than 150 convictions by his office alone. Some targets were Koch's closest friends -- notably Donald Manes, president of the borough of Queens, who killed himself last year as the net tightened around him, and Cultural Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson, Koch's ever present companion during his first race for mayor in 1977. The former Miss America faces trial for bribing a judge to reduce the divorce settlement of her lover...
...moment, Talbot considers abandoning his extensively planned future: his post in the service of the British governor of Australia, which will in time bring him back to England, election to Parliament from his godfather's "rotten borough" and prospective glories beyond. And to throw all that away, he reminds himself, for a "parson's penniless daughter!" But the Alcyone is gone the next morning, and Marion with her. Talbot wakes up, hung over yet drunk with infatuation, to face the alarming likelihood that the ship carrying him toward his appointed destination will sink...
...comes at 5 in the morning, following the delivery trucks along Queens Boulevard, her hips rotating, arms pumping and legs jerking straight out in front, looking for all the world like a drunken ostrich on parade. Marian Spatz, a high school administrative secretary from the New York City borough of Queens, is totally unfazed by curious stares, for this is her daily exercise regimen. Not for her the heel-pounding, back-jarring effort of jogging. Instead, she, like many other American fitness enthusiasts, has taken up aerobic walking. If you think mere walking will not keep you in shape, listen...
Payoffs were so routine at Wedtech, state prosecutors allege, that the company maintained a secret bank account for depositing kickbacks from contractors and greasing public officials. Earlier this month, former Bronx Borough President Stanley Simon was indicted on federal charges that he extorted more than $50,000 from Wedtech. Bronx Congressman Robert Garcia is said to be under investigation for accepting bribes, and federal officials suggest that as many as 20 public and private figures will eventually be indicted. Wedtech's tentacles groped upward and outward...
...Zollner Pistons eventually became the Detroit Pistons, showing that some nicknames travel well. The Brooklyn Dodgers, named for the difficulty of evading trolley cars in the famous borough, are now the Los Angeles Dodgers, where evading mayhem on the freeways is equally hard. The name Los Angeles Lakers, however, makes no sense at all, though it did when the team was in Minnesota. Utah, with its Mormon tradition, could easily have accepted the New Orleans football team (the Saints, as in Latter-Day Saints and saints who go marching in). Instead it got the New Orleans basketball team, now known...