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...Central Park Jogger has decided to tell all in a book she's writing for Scribner. The woman, an investment banker who 13 years ago was attacked and left for dead by a gang of teens as she jogged through the Manhattan park, has never revealed her identity. She is being paid a mid-six-figure sum for world rights to "I Am the Central Park Jogger." The author's name will be released with the book...
...some infertile couples the joy of procreation? Or is it dehumanizing, a step that is to be condemned because it puts the moment of creation outside the body into a mechanical environment? To some thinkers, the Oldham experiment poses no problems. Says Rabbi Seymour Siegel, professor of ethics at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary: "The Browns were trying to obey the commandment to have children. When nature does not permit conception, it is desirable to try to outwit nature. The Talmud teaches that God desires man's cooperation." For many others, in vitro fertilization is fraught with moral dangers. British...
...writes songs infused with nostalgia for the Television album that played during his conception? His songs suggest he knows his late-'70s New York punk bands backward and forwards, but a distinctive voice emerges in every one, one that reflects the been-there-done-that milieu of early '00s Manhattan prep school youth rather than the conspicuously aggravated, dope-addled CBGBs crowd of twenty-five years ago. My guess is The Strokes would sooner die than hold forth with a Patti Smith-style poetry-reading-over-extended-jam-session, a jazzy, Tom Verlaine guitar solo, or one of the Ramones...
...event, held at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel, was a huge, gaudy success. Johnnie Cochran and P. Diddy made cameos, as did a coterie of men in full-length furs who sipped Cristal from gold chalices. The whole thing cost $100,000, a rounding error compared with what would be spent on the album's first video. With any luck, it would all come back tenfold...
...couple now divide their time between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. GUILTY. Plea entered by MAMDOUH MAHMUD SALIM, 45, alleged al-Qaeda member charged with attempted murder for a November 2000 attack in which he stabbed a prison guard in the eye with a sharpened comb; in a Manhattan court. The incident occurred while Salim awaited trial on conspiracy charges for his alleged involvement in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa. RELEASED. TANAK JIGME SANGPO, 76, Tibetan teacher who spent the past 19 years in jail on charges of "counterrevolutionary incitement" for condemning the Chinese occupation...