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...time of heightened national concern over aggressive law-enforcement practices. In New York City, authorities have been on the defensive since last month, when a West African street peddler named Amadou Diallo was killed by police. He died in a barrage of 41 bullets as he entered his Bronx apartment building. The police say the officers fired on Diallo because they thought he was reaching for a gun. He was unarmed...
...latter had carelessly missed. To a filmmaker desperately behind schedule, he might offer to share his state-of-the-art editing suite to speed things up. To a harried studio executive, he might provide an evening of baseball nostalgia, centered on the New York Yankees, beloved since Kubrick's Bronx boyhood. Maybe Warren Beatty caught the delicious dynamic of those encounters best when he observed, "You always assumed Stanley knew something you didn't know...
...absorbed Joe DiMaggio's example of doing whatever you do with grace and dignity--took the occasion of Joltin' Joe's death to push the idea of naming the West Side Highway the Joe DiMaggio Highway, and Governor George Pataki resisted that in favor of a freeway in the Bronx. The agendas reflected in the argument were theirs, of course, rather than DiMaggio's; Pataki wants the Bronx Bombers to stay where they are, and Giuliani would like to see Yankee Stadium on the West Side of Manhattan, next to what used to be poor Julius Miller's elevated highway...
...right. Polo Ralph Lauren remains perhaps the strongest combination of business and brand in all fashiondom. Lauren, born Ralph Lifshitz in the Bronx, conceived a vision of Waspy splendor and preppie elegance and then had the all-American gumption to go out and live that dream and project it in sepia tones around the world. He once sold his wares store to store in a bomber jacket and jeans, and leveraged a line of wide neckties into a wider life-style empire with annual revenues of $1.47 billion and profits of $120 million. Until this year, Polo/RL sported growth rates...
Although Gloria Estefan crossed over in the late '80s, Latin pop remains foreign to most American listeners. Between now and August, Sony hopes to change that with four major releases--English-language debuts by Puerto Rican-born Martin, East Harlem salsa and stage star Marc Anthony, Bronx native and Hollywood star Jennifer Lopez and the Colombian vocal powerhouse Shakira...