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...from Brooklyn,” says Beal, who joined the Crimson after orally committing to Georgetown, “and one of my coaches, who was like a father figure to me, said that if I went to an Ivy League school—if I went to Harvard—it would show people in my neighborhood, people that I grew up with, that you could use basketball as a way to get other things and that you didn’t have to play basketball just...
Amid the chaos and crowds of Coney Island, Ed Zander learned an early lesson in the value of hustle and patience. The son of a furrier in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Zander loved the Parachute Jump, the Silver Streak and, of course, the Cyclone. After school he and his brother would stand at the exit to Steeplechase Park for hours and charm people out of unused ride tickets, hoarding them in a rented locker. "We had, like, 3,000 free rides," Zander says. By summertime, they could spend all day in the park without ever buying a ticket...
Zander tells the story with a baby boomer's nostalgia for his 1950s childhood and a true salesman's pride. Now CEO of Motorola, Zander, 58, doesn't hide the fact that he has tried to animate the company with his particular brand of Brooklyn moxie. He acknowledges that Motorola has a storied past. (Its engineers invented the cellular phone and the walkie-talkie, and it was one of the world's first manufacturers of semiconductors.) But in the years before Zander took over, Motorola had been losing ground to the market-leading muscle of Nokia and to the stylish...
...Born in Brooklyn, Lester went to SUNY-Plattsburgh as an undergrad, earning a degree in Restaurant, Hotel, and Tourism Management. In the summers, she worked at her old summer camp...
...York City Mayor's race: The incumbent Republican, Michael Bloomberg, is running 30 points ahead of Democrat Fernando Ferrer. On Sunday, Bloomberg donned a yarmulke in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Ferrer campaigned with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and used a David and Goliath analogy while addressing a Baptist congregation in Harlem...