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...words celebrity and show business came into vogue. Pop culture of every kind was exploding. P.T. Barnum operated an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan that featured stage plays, vaudeville, freak shows, a menagerie and a somewhat insane museum of natural history. In 1850, Barnum promoted the first American tour of the first international superstar--the Swedish singer Jenny Lind, for whom he stirred up such hysteria that on the day she arrived in New York, almost one-tenth of the city thronged the wharves to get a glimpse...
...hope that something strikes large in the company," he says. Perhaps it will be Pressler. MobiTV outsourced the design of a demo it needed for a consumer-electronics show, and over two months the Manhattan-based firm that got the job produced many designs. But one that Pressler did for another product beat them all. "That was my shining moment thus far," he says...
...then Senator Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois called Louis Freeh, director of the FBI, for advice. "I asked, 'Who is the best Assistant U.S. Attorney in the nation?'" he recalls. "Freeh said, 'Patrick Fitzgerald.'" The Senator, who is not related, then called Mary Jo White, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. "I asked her who was the best assistant in her office. She said, 'Patrick Fitzgerald...
Fitzgerald, 46, developed his sense of fair play while growing up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, with parents he has described as "hardworking, straight, decent people." His father, a doorman on Manhattan's Upper East Side, reportedly arrived early for every shift and rarely took vacations. Fitzgerald himself worked as a janitor during high school and as a doorman in the summers while attending Amherst College, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1982. He then received a law degree from Harvard...
...least bit gay to me. Coulter has at least one close gay friend, and when I was reporting my profile of her, she always remembered to ask about my partner at the time. She is always trying to get me to go with her to the Halloween parade in Manhattan's West Village, which is the second-gayest event in New York City after the Pride parade. So I'm not sure why she thought it would be funny to target a gay joke at Edwards. But then again she doesn't need her semiannual cadenzas of outrage...