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...After every disaster, a small number of people pretend to be victims. Usually, they do it for money; but not always. After 9/11, the Manhattan District Attorney's office charged 539 people with offenses related to the Trade Center collapse. The charges ran the gamut from trespassing to shoplifting to breaking and entering. But a majority of the arrests were for fraud. "People who tried to get benefits they were not entitled to," explains spokesperson Barbara Thompson. "Employees who said they'd lost their jobs; they hadn't. People who said they'd lost spouses; they didn...
...just the kernel of an idea for a business--gourmet popcorn--and visited the town on a whim. Humphrey charmed them with stories about his neighbors, passionate farmers who lived and breathed to harvest corn. Inspired, the two entrepreneurs started selling online and opened up a small shop in Manhattan, getting most of their product from the good people of Popcorn...
After 11 years away, elderly writer (and Roth crypto-alter ego) Nathan Zuckerman returns to Manhattan to leer at young ladies, pursue a literary mystery and get his leaky urethra looked at. This is minor Roth--fencing listlessly with the Reaper, Zuckerman is occasionally gruffly touching but mostly just embarrassing. Let him die already...
...purchased for $32 million from Billy Joel in 2000 and a new spread in Telluride, Colo., not far from Tom Cruise's place. He keeps his collection of Porsches (he won't say how many, though it's assumed there are more than 30) in a private garage in Manhattan. He hits the gym regularly, and every day when he's in the city he walks 25 blocks through Central Park to his midtown office-a spacious aerie with sweeping views of the skyline-where he works on his stand-up act. The office is equipped with a high-tech...
...married, I didn't like being single anymore, and I didn't know what I wanted to do." Whatever he did, it wouldn't be in Hollywood. "I got tired of being treated like a precious little egg on a pillow," says Seinfeld, who moved back to Manhattan, where he had gotten his start as a comedian while attending Queens College in the 1970s. "'That's not the water Mr. Seinfeld prefers, you idiot'-I just wanted to get away from that. I missed people yelling at me and treating me like a regular guy." After a few months...