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...last week that Tyrone Sinkler and his friend Ian Moore, 17, were shot to death in a corridor of their Brooklyn high school, New York City Mayor David Dinkins was on his way to lecture the students about self-esteem. The mayor would speak under a banner bearing some words of Martin Luther King Jr.: "The choice today is not between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence." It was a gun, of course, that dispatched Martin Luther King to nonexistence nearly 24 years...
AMERICAN AIRLINES is proudly touting its plush new coast-to-coast business- class service -- complete with extra-wide seats, free movies, restaurant- quality food and drinks on the house. But watch out when you get there. The supercarrier has been getting hammered in the busy California corridor by scrappy (and consistently profitable) Southwest Airlines. Now American is mulling plans to mimic some of Southwest's cattle-car tactics in order to match its low fares: open seating, no meals, no baggage transfers. Says an American executive: "Value isn't quality; it's getting what...
This intrepid reporter travelled not once, not twice but three times on T and on foot, through rain and through the Infinite Corridor of some M.I.T. building, to gather information on the dance some call square. As a reporter, one trip would have been enough. As a dancer, she wanted more...
Robertson begins The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and The New York Times with a description of her youthful obsession with walking through the Times corridor lined with portraits of the paper's Pulitzer Prize winners. Of the 21 pictures on the wall when Robertson started at the Times in 1955--she was 22 years old--20 of the portraits were of traditional, `Timesmen.' Only one, Anne O'Hare McCormick, was a Times woman...
...floors of permanent galleries have a similar elegant coherence. On each floor a wide corridor runs east to west, with floor-to-ceiling windows at each end, to bring in natural light and let wanderers know where they are. Throughout are refined Venturi details (granite thresholds, for instance) and also Venturi perversity (columns placed a few inches from a wall simply to create an unnavigable isthmus...