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...drink mostly bottled water. And we don't often burn candles; some wicks contain lead that can reach toxic levels. The biggest source of lead here is Rachel's stained-glass studio in the basement. But Brennan declared himself "wickedly impressed" by the exhaust fan, respirator, fume collector and gloves Rachel uses when she works...
...sympathy. Rudy!, by investigative reporter Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice, reveals that the famous crime buster hails from a family of crooks. Rudy's deceased father Harold was convicted of burglary at 15 and armed robbery at 26; he went on to be a baseball-bat-wielding debt collector for Rudy's uncle Leo D'Avanzo, a "petty mafioso" loan shark. For Giuliani, who may not have known about his father's imprisonment (he won't comment but hasn't disputed Barrett's account), this has been one lousy year so far--which may have moved Hillary to offer...
When bribery fails, oenophiles turn to auctions and rare-wine dealers. Clark Gibson not only paid $600 for a $59 Sine Qua Non 1997 Imposter McCoy Syrah, he also drove from Chicago to pick it up. At the 20th annual Napa Valley Wine Auction for charity last month, collector Chase Bailey bid $500,000 for a single six-liter bottle of a 1992 Screaming Eagle Cabernet, the highest auction price ever paid for a bottle of wine. Under what circumstances do you imbibe a half-million-dollar bottle of wine? "I haven't the slightest idea," says Bailey. "Maybe...
...bestseller list seems to be more about I'm-smarter-than-you yuppie consumerism than about the books that people really read. I don't know anyone who finished "Infinite Jest." And do you remember the fuss over Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" (a bestselling dust-collector if there ever was one)? And who read Seamus Heaney's new translation of "Beowulf" other than this year's Whitbread Prize judges? "Harry Potter," on the other hand, will be read over and over and passed from person to person. This book takes you back to a time...
...gossamer, radiant with the genius of his ardor, his generosity), he became endlessly specific about each trade, and put in motion, Homerically, each deckhand, stevedore, scholar, prostitute, drunkard, slave, "Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff," policeman, suicide, trapper, blacksmith, ploughboy, carpenter, contralto, spinning-girl, machinist, squaw, paving-man, flatboatman, fare-collector... on and on, the vast catalog of individualities making...