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Prior to joining Carver, Wright served as president of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, a Federal initiative designed to revitalize distressed communities, and as New York’s commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development...
...After a year at Boston's Emerson College and another three with the Fifteenth Air Force near Foggia, Italy (since enshrined as Archie's old unit), Lear was laid off his first job with a Manhattan publicity firm. Then he went bankrupt with his own novelty ashtray business. He took his wife and infant daughter to Los Angeles, where half of his luck improved. He at least survived as a door-to-door salesman of furniture and baby pictures...
...Iridium, a basement jazz club across from Lincoln Center in Manhattan, Les Paul sidles up a narrow aisle between tables. He is smaller, more gnomish, but still recognizably the wizard of Waukesha, the garage mechanic's son who revolutionized the way music was played and recorded. And since he turned 86 just two days before, and is looking forward to celebrating his birthday with some famous friends, Paul has a special glow. He sits on a stool surrounded by a few admiring musicians and starts playing 'Over the Rainbow' on one of his famous guitars...
...lifelong Democrat, Bloomberg saw he would never get the party's nod and switched eight months ago to the anemic New York G.O.P. He is hoping that his puckish smile, fabulous parties and high-wire life (he owns homes in Manhattan, London, Bermuda and Westchester County, flies his own helicopter and has dated women like Diana Ross) will outshine a Democratic field littered with smart but lackluster pols. And Bloomberg has proved that his dollars come with sense, hiring an A-list team of political veterans to finesse his policies and produce his image...
Monheit grew up on Long Island, N.Y., the child of musicians who discovered her perfect pitch when she was in grade school, and the student of teachers quickly nonplussed by a nine-year-old who wanted to talk about Ella Fitzgerald. At the Manhattan School of Music she fell under the tutelage of singer/arranger Peter Eldridge, who helped her shine her already polished skills...