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...niche schism better than Bruce Springsteen and Eminem. (They also showed that mainstream and niche are about sensibility, not sales. Eminem's CD actually moved 5.5 million more copies than Springsteen's, according to SoundScan.) The typical victim in the Twin Towers was a man under 50, from New Jersey or New York, blue collar or not many generations removed from it--in other words, Springsteen's born subject matter. With 2002's tribute album The Rising, Springsteen became the mainstream's Maya Angelou of 9/11: the event's unofficial poet laureate, the articulator of the most heartfelt--and publicly...
APPOINTED. THOMAS KEAN, 67, moderate former G.O.P. Governor of New Jersey; by President Bush; as new head of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks; in Washington. Kean replaces Henry Kissinger, who resigned because the work would have required him to divulge clients of his private consulting business...
...workweek trapped on the Long Island Expressway, famed for its snail-paced traffic. He felt he had no choice. As president of Kings Cages, a birdcage manufacturer based in Farmingdale, N.Y., about 40 miles east of Manhattan, King has to visit customers scattered all around New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. But one day last spring, as he was spending all morning driving to Oxford, Conn., it suddenly occurred to him that if he had flown from a municipal airport near his business, he would have reached his destination in half an hour...
...Swedish investment bank even put a rare "sell" recommendation on Electrolux stock. What's ailing the maker of Eurekas and WeedEaters? CEO Hans Straaberg blames heavy competition and certain "under-performing" areas, notably room air conditioners, for which labor and supply costs at the Frigidaire plant in New Jersey are said to be too high. Analysts complain that the firm is spread too thin. Either way, the only winners seem to be dirty carpets...
Hughes, who lives in Great Neck, N.Y., is seriously considering both Columbia and Yale so that she could remain closer to her training site in New Jersey and coach Robin Wagner...