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Henry, a onetime actor who performed in Simon's Odd Couple and Barefoot in the Park in small New Jersey productions in 1966 and 1967, recalls that the lines always drew laughs. Henry notes, however, that Simon, like many practitioners of comedy, is not an outgoing, knock-'em-dead kind of interview. "He is not a performer. He has more of the temperament of a professor or an accountant. In conversations, what you get is first-draft Neil Simon. The words are intelligent, authoritative and sometimes funny, but not burnished, not like his plays...
...last May the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that the state's current law doesn't let a court consider a child's best interests when a father requests DNA testing to determine paternity. And in a sign of the further complications genetic testing may have unleashed, the New Jersey Supreme Court is debating whether a nonbiological father can sue the biological one for $110,000 in child-support reimbursement. The plaintiff in the case didn't learn the truth about the son he had believed to be his own until...
States of Gay Union Legal linkage in New Jersey...
...ingredients for the big day. Many of his competitors are subsidized by their governments, but Kaysen has had to find his own sponsors. He has enlisted Uncle Ben's, Brandt Meats, De Buyer cookware and his employer, the Rancho Bernardo Inn. His chef's coat looks like a racing jersey, with the logos of his backers adorning his sleeves...
...then, minutes later, headily caromed the puck off the Big Green netminder into the net to even the score. Who gutted out a two-minute-long penalty kill late in the third period to preserve the draw. And who, coincidentally (wink), wears the same number 11 on her jersey that finished off the attendance figure from the game. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...