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...sell stocks. Barton Biggs, an analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, confirms and bemoans the trend in biting missives to clients about his plumber, who is so busy trading he won't come to fix a leaking pipe. I've written about the guy behind the deli counter leafing through Barron's for that day's stock trade. It's epidemic, and it's alarming...
...former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, his partner on what was called the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission. The two tackled tricky trade disputes (over frozen chicken legs, for one), worked out arrangements for cooperation in space, negotiated safeguards on plutonium and lunched over hot dogs and sauerkraut at Katz's Deli in New York City. Gore put such faith in Chernomyrdin that at times it seemed a blind spot. When the CIA produced a report offering what it called "conclusive evidence of [Chernomyrdin's] personal corruption," the Vice President's office returned it with a barnyard epithet scrawled across the cover...
Instead of ice cream, it carries a line of hot and cold deli sandwiches, breakfast sandwiches and fresh fruit, as well as espresso and cappuccino...
Instead of ice cream, it carries a line of hot and cold deli sandwiches, breakfast sandwiches and fresh fruit, as well as espresso and cappuccino...
...Soon, we find ourselves back in front of the Celebrity Deli, the site of our original location on line. Again confronted with those warm, inviting booths, we head inside and order some breakfast. Before our whitefish salad arrives, we've all passed out. I dream of sugar plum fairies and Downtown Julie Brown...