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...scheme thus classified was launched some years ago by the then mayor, Edward Koch, who had come back from China smitten with the idea of bicycle transportation. He had protective strips of concrete installed to create a bicycle lane up Sixth Avenue. As someone who schlepps around (as we say here) on an old Raleigh three-speed, I was pathetically grateful for the bike lane myself; I suppose that shows that no matter how long I live in New York, I am, at heart, an out-of-towner. The cabdrivers, of course, hated it ("He likes China so much...
...bike-lane episode reminds me that you'd better put "contentious" near the top of that list, right under "funny looking." (Not just "funny looking," come to think of it, but also "funny": New York is the only city I've ever been in where almost everyone you meet on the street considers himself a comedian -- a fact brought home to me a couple of years ago when a panhandler near my subway stop said to me, "Can you spare some change? I'd like to buy a few junk bonds.") In the matter of contentiousness, I once tried...
...Haggerty (Frank), while the water polo coach is named Hafferty (Chris). You know that head hockey Coach Bill Cleary ('56) is now athletic director, that associate hockey coach Ronn (two n's) Tomassoni (one m, one n, two s's) is now head hockey coach, that former hockey Captain Lane MacDonald (spelled like the old guy who had a farm, not the fast food joint) is now assistant hockey coach...
...Haggerty (Frank), while the water polo coach is named Hafferty (Chris). You know that head hockey Coach Bill Cleary ('56) is now athletic director, that associate hockey coach Ronn (two n's) Tomassoni (one m, one n, two s's) is now head hockey coach, that former hockey Captain Lane MacDonald (spelled like the old guy who had a farm, not the fast food joint) is now assistant hockey coach...
...Does this feel like a recession, or is it just me?" For several months, that question has been nagging at millions of Americans as the U.S. economy poked along in the slow lane. From New England computer makers to California missile builders, many industries that boomed in the go-go '80s have slumped in the slo-mo '90s. But the sudden spurt in the cost of crude oil brought on by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait -- from about $20 per bbl. on Aug. 1 to a high of more than $28 per bbl. last week -- threatened to turn an already...