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...even Cinderella started out by sweeping the floor. The price for Hughes' invitation to the Games? Being a mule for Russian rival and reigning world champion IRINA SLUTSKAYA, inset. The two share a New York City dressmaker, and when the seamstress found out that Hughes--who lives in a Manhattan suburb--was traveling to Torino, she asked the skater to pack Slutskaya's dress too. After the family arrived in Italy, Hughes' father John confirmed that they had the Russian's dress and joked, "I tried it on." I guess we'll know whom to question if another big sporting...
Following a two year stint at the New School in Manhattan, Matisyahu studied with Hasidic rabbis at New York University. Within six months, he had changed his original name—Matthew Miller—to Matisyahu...
...Following his military instincts, Eisenhower bridled at the thought of keeping modern weapons from his allies,” Yoo wrote. “American and British scientists had already collaborated fruitfully on the Manhattan Project. But Congress had disrupted this cooperation by passing the Atomic Energy (McMahon) Act of 1946, which prohibited the transfer of nuclear secrets to other nations, even close allies like Britain...
...solid (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.) and imposing woman, dramatic soprano Nilsson ... displayed a big, flashing, vibrant voice that galvanized her audience and conveyed an immediate sense of the turbulent passions that animate the role [of Isolde] ... Apparently a more severe critic of herself than some of Manhattan's reviewers, Soprano Nilsson said later: 'After the first act I was just physically tired, and my throat was dry. The first act is as hard as all of Aida' ... Next season she will return for another of her favorites, Puccini's Turandot. 'I could sing Turandot right now,' said...
...lost to history. No, it's not King Kong-last year's November-December expedition to Indonesia's remote Foja Mountains didn't include any movie stars, and the most amazing mammal they saw, the 15-kg Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroo, would have a hard time wreaking havoc on Manhattan. But with claims to have discovered dozens of previously unreported species in a 10,000-sq-km expanse of virgin forest, the 11 American, Australian and Indonesian researchers may have found a biological blockbuster just the same. "Every decade there are more people, more roads, more human control over...