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...near the exit, I turn to watch the semi-celebrities down their last cocktails, finish munching on cookies, and trickle out into the humid Manhattan summer night. The premiere wasn’t quite the glamorous gathering I’d been expecting, but gallivanting with the jet set is fun while it lasts...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, | Title: Adventures in Mid- to High Society | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

Perhaps in anticipation of next month’s Republican National Convention, which is scheduled to occur in Manhattan just before the third anniversary of the attacks, many of the DNC’s key speakers made prominent references to Sept. 11, most falling in line with Kerry’s non-confrontational message last night...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker and Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Ready To Serve | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

...sentenced to serve time in prison for conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal investigators. It took 26 months and a bruising federal trial to break, if just for a moment, Stewart's stony resolve. She stood before Judge Miriam Cedarbaum last week in a lower-Manhattan courtroom, her voice faltering as she begged for leniency. "My hopes that my life will not be completely destroyed lie entirely in your competent and experienced and merciful hands," she said. Stewart asked the judge to consider her decades as an icon to women, the suffering she had already endured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martha's Endgame | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...Trade Center towers fell because intense fires eventually melted their interior steel. But their structural systems permitted both towers to remain standing after the initial impact of massive jetliners. So for the new 52-story headquarters of the New York Times, the construction of which will soon begin in Manhattan, the architect Renzo Piano agreed to reinforce the connections joining columns on lower floors to support structures above called outrigger trusses. If a blast severs the columns, the floors above could still hang from the trusses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Tall Orders | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

When we sit down at a Manhattan bar, Zach Braff tells the waitress that we'll have two beers. This I didn't know about. On our way out, he gives a smooth Jersey nod to a table of college-age women. His laugh is so loud, explosive and startlingly self-assured that it's normally heard only from aliens pretending to be human. Braff exudes more confidence than Donald Rumsfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Zach Braff Has A Big Laugh | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

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