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Students representing Harvard College, Wellesley College, Bentley College, Tufts University and MIT arrived in Manhattan on Friday and protested from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in front of Fairchild Publishers, which owns Details...
Catwalk producer Alexandre de Betak has been dubbed the Fellini of fashion shows for his runway pyrotechnics. The Manhattan-based Frenchman once created an interactive catwalk for Donna Karan (sensors in the runway activated the show's sound track), and he sent trapeze artists floating through the air during a man-made snowstorm for Victoria's Secret...
...industry built on trust," says Biju Patnaik, a Bombay-based diamond-industry expert at Dutch bank ABN AMRO. The Palanpuris have also ventured over-seas, setting up small family-run polishing centers in Antwerp and Tel Aviv, and slowly elbowing into the U.S. as diamond sellers. In Manhattan's midtown diamond district, Palanpuri businessmen sitting beneath portraits of their saint, Mahavira, now run shops side by side with black-coated Hasidim from Brooklyn...
...wasn't sure what to expect back on Sept. 29 when potential jurors shuttled across lower Manhattan's Centre Street for jury selection. Along the way, one man asked a court officer if it was for the Kozlowski case. As a writer-reporter for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, I wondered whether Atlanta Falcons tight end Brian Kozlowski had got into a legal scrape. Of course, the defendants were actually Dennis Kozlowski, the CEO of Tyco International, and ex-CFO Mark Swartz. Through a series of ever larger acquisitions throughout the '90s, the two built Tyco into a $36 billion conglomerate and made...
...experience is akin to rehabbing a muscle you had forgotten you had. Thus in this Lenten season the Rev. Byron Shafer, pastor of Rutgers Presbyterian Church on Manhattan's Upper West Side, gave his first atonement sermon in "eight or nine years." Chicago First United Methodist's Blackwell found himself lined up with two other talking heads on MSNBC, debating the topic as if it were an election issue or celebrity trial. And back in Geneva, the issue continues to fascinate the Bible students and their church's associate rector, Tony Welty. "The question is," says Welty, "O.K., if this...