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...tiny but noisy pro-Taliban lobby, whose frequent spokesperson is Laili Helms, the Afghan-born daughter-in-law of former CIA chief Richard Helms. Its protest outside the party was menacing enough so that Jennifer Holliday (Dreamgirls) was too shaken to perform. Helms, who lives freely in a New Jersey suburb, is convinced the Taliban is good for Afghanistan and that life is better now that someone is in charge after years of civil...
...month and catering to customers as far away as Japan. "I'm making triple my old salary, and I only have to work when I want to," says Sommers. That kind of flexibility was one of the key selling points for Rolando and Lisa Anzardo, longtime New Jersey antiques dealers, who closed their retail store, moved to the sun and surf of Florida and established a virtual trading post. For a year now, they've been hawking their wares exclusively on eBay, shipping about 75 items a month, ranging in price from $100 to $2,000. "At the store...
...soon confirmed what Richard Smith already suspected: that someone had hijacked skyroket@aol.com's account. (The real owner, Scott Steinmetz of Lynnwood, Wash., squeezed a good 15 min. of fame out of the mix-up.) The culprit, AOL discovered, had logged on from New Jersey. A high-tech FBI-police unit there narrowed the possibilities still further. "Eventually," says deputy attorney general Christopher Bubb, "we were able to trace it back to the specific telephone that was being used." It belonged to David Smith...
...issue, the NBA players association has turned to another matter plaguing professional basketball: impudent mascots. The association has filed a complaint against the Phoenix Suns, alleging that the team's mascot, the GORILLA, insulted visiting Sacramento Kings center OLIVER MILLER. At a recent game the Gorilla donned a Kings jersey with Miller's No. 8 on it and stuffed it with pillows, a rather unkind jab at Miller's robust 6-ft. 9-in., 370-lb. physique. Miller called the skit racist and said it embarrassed him in front of his family. Furthermore, the humiliation caused him to gain still...
DIED. LILA HOTZ LUCE TYNG, 100, first wife of Henry Luce, founder of TIME magazine; in Gladstone, N.J. A philanthropist and volunteer for numerous New York and New Jersey cultural institutions, Tyng was married to Luce from 1923 to 1935 and had two sons with...