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...that he may have practiced overly aggressive medicine and allowed addicts to snooker him, but insist he never profited from drug sales and was not a criminal. "Maybe his license should have been suspended," says Dr. Russell Portenoy, chairman of the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center. "But there was no evidence that his patients were not in pain...
...dumbest investment I ever made was to buy an apartment in Manhattan in the late '80s. Prices were soaring, and it seemed like an effortless way to get rich, so my brother and I pooled our money and bought a place for $327,000. Within 18 months, the market tanked and the apartment's value plunged by a third. By then our tenant--who turned out to be a coke-snorting stripper--had stopped paying rent. When I threatened to change the locks, she whacked me on the head with her handbag and warned, "I know people in this...
Here, I’m guaranteed to run into an extended family member at any given meal. It’s a simple thing, sure, but precisely what I lack in Manhattan and definitely in Cambridge. Of course, I don’t speak the language, and every stilted conversation I’ve had over such meals makes the deficiency obvious. All my relatives speak English, but socially, I fail to get jokes and tend to fall silent amid idle chatter. I also find otherwise banal things overly amusing: that “super-sizing” your meal...
...past two weeks, I’ve spent the majority of my evening commute home stuck in traffic. Each day, the 20-minute drive down the stretch of the West Side Highway separating my house in the Bronx from midtown Manhattan turns into an hour-and-a-half of slow moving frustration...
...adjust their expectations. "Build-A-Bear is not a fad," Ryan says. The company plans to open 30 more shops in 2005, expand its line of licensed merchandise, introduce "friends 2B made"--a new make-a-doll concept--and unveil a 21,500-sq.-ft. flagship store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue this month. Build-A-Bear Workshop may yet prove that it has legs--even if they're only stuffed ones. --By Dody Tsiantar