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...Koch Records)3.5/5 StarsTalib Kweli used to be inextricably linked with the NYC vibe of a Brooklyn block party, the backpacker haven Rawkus Records, the warm, thick voice of his old partner Mos Def, and the coolly meditative guitars and pianos DJ Hi-Tek brought to all his productions. But now, Rawkus is gone, the New York hip-hop scene is in hibernation, the old Mos Def is AWOL (lost to Hollywood and bad concept albums), and Hi-Tek produces worthless album tracks for G-Unit and 213. Since 2004’s crossover flop...
...frail-looking, 75-year-old nun, winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, thus accomplished what other church and city leaders had failed to do. Although New York offers facilities for AIDS sufferers, neighborhood groups have blocked hospices in their areas. Backed by Mayor Edward Koch and New York's John Cardinal O'Connor, Mother Teresa persuaded Greenwich Village residents to allow St. Veronica's Church to open its rectory to 14 dying AIDS patients. The first three: prisoners from the state penitentiary at Ossining, released by Governor Mario Cuomo...
...Milosz and Claude Simon as well as Playwright Arthur Miller and International PEN President Per Wästberg. They mingled in places as dissimilar as hotel coffee shops and the 34-room apartment of Saul Steinberg, the takeover artist. There was also a party at Gracie Mansion, where Mayor Edward Koch and Poet Allen Ginsberg hummed a mantra, and a wall-to-wall reception in the vast Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Milling around the reconstructed Temple of Dendur, star watchers could search for the Santa Claus figure of Canadian Novelist Robertson Davies and eavesdrop on the exquisite...
...friends, including New York Mayor Edward Koch, were startled. Manes was at the peak of his 21-year political career, newly re-elected, and admired by his constituents. Soon, though, the reason for Manes' inner torture became known: his close friend Geoffrey Lindenauer, 52, whom Manes had placed as deputy director of the city's parking-violations bureau, was charged with extorting $5,000 from a private collection agency as a payoff for a contract to dun motorists for unpaid parking tickets...
Manes' world swiftly became more lonely and hostile. Koch, feeling betrayed by his friend, called Manes "a crook" and urged him to resign. "It was the biggest shock that I've suffered politically," Koch told TIME last week. Manes did resign on Feb. 11. The final blow came last week, when his friend Lindenauer pleaded guilty to extortion and mail fraud and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. Apparently that was enough to drive Manes to his last desperate act--an end foreshadowed 31 years earlier when his own father, despondent over reported financial reverses, shot himself to death. --By John...