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While a teenager, Lin attended the pre-college program of Manhattan's Julliard School, which was where he first met Loeb...
...amazing how far a batch of Rice Krispies Treats will go to help break the ice with teenage girls. I learned this and more when I visited two Manhattan high schools last week and gave the snacks to everyone who agreed to test out a new website called kibu.com I liked the site, which launched May 1, because it covered not just the usual girly topics like fashion and hairstyles, but finance, college, films and sports. I also knew that it really didn't matter what a Generation X-er like me thought: it's the girls that count...
...Friars Club, home to entertainers from Henny Youngman to Sally Jessy Raphael, sits just blocks from my office in Manhattan, taunting me. As a young Jewish male, my lifelong dream was to date a tall blond. But my other dream was to join the Friars Club. I pictured Shecky insulting Slappy, Slappy mocking Nipsey, Nipsey taunting Soupy, and Soupy choking on his own phlegm. There would be a whoopee cushion on every bar stool, pie fights over stolen punch lines and a lot of catcalling at the mere mention...
...love these guys. And I love it even more that in about four years, Joy and I are going to have a sweet piece of Manhattan real estate all to ourselves...
...great New York City nearly panicked. People thought to be suffering from AIDS were treated as pariahs; it was difficult to get beds for the victims, or doctors and nurses to treat them. With no need for prodding, JOHN CARDINAL O'CONNOR made St. Clare's Hospital in Manhattan a haven for AIDS victims, and that example helped encourage the city's aggressive response to a uniquely severe crisis. For many years after that, without publicizing it, the Cardinal visited AIDS patients, sought to comfort them and even changed bedpans...