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...York City cop John McNally, 60, is the tough guy, with a reputation for playing hard, dirty and on the side of the Mob. Vietnam vet Pat McKenna, 45, is the boy scout who loves his kids, baseball and a good laugh over a few beers. Both have lent their expertise to celebrated cases; both have a reputation for extreme thoroughness...
...more than ever, challenging an incumbent Representative or Senator is a rich person's sport, according to spending reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. During the 15 months ending March 31, candidates gave or lent their campaigns more than $28 million out of their own pocket, up from $24.3 million during the comparable period two years ago. Roll Call, a Capitol Hill biweekly, recently listed 21 candidates for the House who had already personally invested $100,000 -- nine months before Election Day. An additional 24 had put up more than...
...still not had an adequate museum retrospective. The last attempt at such a show was staged at the Whitney Museum in New York City 10 years ago. It was a bust because so many of De Kooning's key paintings from the '40s and '50s were not lent. The show titled "Willem de Kooning Paintings," which opened this month at the National Gallery in Washington -- it will go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in October, and later to the Tate Gallery in London -- is not a real retrospective either. It leaves out both the worst...
Roosevelt raised $25,121 in April and former state Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown) collected only $4,145. Records also indicate that Bachrach lent $30,000 of his personal money to his campaign last month...
...things, in the pudding, and this fellow's pudding was rich with Veritas. He didn't ask us to believe his abduction story just on the basis of his say-so (for, as he casually informed the assembled crowd of Oprah-worshippers, not even his own father--surprise, surprise--lent any credence to that), but offered as hard evidence a tape. Not of the aliens mind you; but of his own screams during a hypnosis session when he "relived" the abduction. How much more prima facie...