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...Annenberg Chef Larry Houston hurries out of an evening PSLM meeting, he carries the credentials of a full-fledged member of the liberal establishment. He was involved in the Living Wage Campaign last year and represents the workers of the first-year dining hall as their Union Shop Steward. In a moment, he will become their political nemesis...
...risks of uniting two struggling behemoths were obvious, even to Compaq co-founder Rod Canion, who sketched out the company with a few buddies 19 years ago in a Houston diner. "Now everybody will want to kick Compaq and HP around," he said last week. He was right. But it wasn't Michael Dell or Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy putting the boot in. Wall Street did a good job of that. HP stock plunged 22% by the end of the week, to $18.08, while Compaq sank 14%, to $10.59, wiping more than $3 billion off the value of the proposed...
...taste. Never mind that tickets for the shows ranged from $45 to $2,500. That was positively classy compared with the first two hours of the Friday-night event. After the show opened with an energetic version of Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' by Usher, Mya and Whitney Houston, Marlon Brando brought things to a halt by sitting onstage in a La-Z-Boy and bathing in a full minute of silence. Then he said, "You may be saying, 'Who's that fat f___ sitting there?' I took one whole minute because I wanted to realize that in that minute, there...
...surge in income from south of the border. Continental's revenue from Latin American countries has quadrupled to $1 billion since 1997, and its passengers have increased from 3.4 million to 5.5 million. Such services, as well as the 150 Spanish-speaking employees in both Newark and Houston and the bilingual signs at more than 20 airports, also appeal to American Latinos...
...about 8:50 a.m., I got into a taxi on the corner of St. Mark’s Place and Third Ave. in the East Village. The taxi headed east on St. Mark’s and turned south onto Second Ave. toward Houston Street and lower Manhattan...