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...Iraq was timid and unfocused, sidestepping the question of how to respond to Bush's tax cut. Gore now tells TIME that he would "scrap the whole thing and start over," with less dramatic cuts aimed at the middle class. Last week he startled an audience in Manhattan with the revelation that as the country copes with a health-care system in crisis, he has "reluctantly" come to support a radical idea that has long been a liberal dream: single-payer health care. In such a system, currently practiced in Canada, health care is financed by taxes, and the government...
...friend that he upgraded his opinion of AT&T so that his ultimate boss, Citigroup's then co-CEO Weill, would help him "get my kids in 92nd St. Y preschool (which is harder than Harvard)." Unlike the Y associations in most cities, this one, located on Manhattan's wealthy Upper East Side, charges as much as $14,400 a year for kids ages 2 1/2 to 5, some of whom get picked up after class by chauffeurs. The school has just 65 openings a year, for which it interviews 300 children and their parents. Woody Allen, Michael...
Business associates and colleagues describe Grubman, who occupied an outsize corner office at Salomon's lower Manhattan headquarters, as generally quiet and focused, with few friends, though he would often hog the stage during conference calls. Says a former Salomon analyst: "We'd all just groan. Nobody had the clout to tell him to stop...
...fastest-growing trends in travel is theme hotels. There are concepts for every taste: from the elegant Library Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where room numbers are based on the Dewey decimal system of classifying books (900.004 for the Asian History room), to the adventurous Jules' Undersea Lodge at the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon in Key Largo, Fla., where guests scuba dive to the entry of their underwater accommodations. "This is a real trend for the traveler who has been there, done that," says Mary Tabacchi, professor of hotel management at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. "There...
...Unfortunately, he had already sent away a reporter from the New York Times, hung up on the Q&A interviewer from the New York Times Magazine after two questions and refused all other interviews. I, however, am the Michael Moore of deconstructionism. I entered the back office of Manhattan's Film Forum, where the documentary was being shown. I was introduced to Derrida not as a reporter but as a "friend of the Film Forum." When I brought out my "friend of the Film Forum" notebook, Derrida got upset. He felt turning our discussion into an interview would ruin...