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...great Mark Messier, winner of six championships during his Hall of Fame career, was fond of taking the Cup to strip joints. After his New York Rangers won the title in 1994, he brought the Cup to a Manhattan venue called Scores. "It was the first time I'd seen our customers eager to touch something besides our dancers," the club's spokesperson said. The Animal House antics of those '94 Rangers - Eddie Olczyk let Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin eat out of the Cup at Belmont Park, and a couple of other Rangers took...
...Princeton’s provost from 1995 to 2001—has since shown that he is a self-teacher who friends say is both curious and adventurous in his academic and personal lives. The son of a teacher and a businessman, Ostriker was born and raised in Manhattan. He attended the Fieldston School, but said that in both high school and college he learned more from reading on his own than he did from most of his courses.“I probably got more out of sports in high school than I did out of classes...
...year-old prince begins a two-day tour of New York City, his first international trip as a representative of the British royal family. Among other things, he'll meet with families who lost loved ones on September 11 and visit soldiers injured in Afghanistan and Iraq at Manhattan's Veterans Affairs Medical Center. (See pictures of Prince Harry in Afghanistan...
...which he meant that Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, will need his rest. On Saturday, he'll face off with Argentine model Nacho Figueras at the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic on Governor's Island to raise funds for Sentebale, the charity he set up in 2006 to benefit vulnerable children in Lesotho. Sentebale, which supports numerous orphanages and educates people about HIV/AIDS, could use the boost. Income from donations plummeted 84% during the last financial year. (See pictures of Africa's AIDS crisis...
...After law school, Sotomayor worked for five years in the office of Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau, where she prosecuted everything from petty drug crimes to felony assaults and murder. No less than her background in the projects, her experience pressing criminal cases may have affected her outlook years later on the bench. One case she presided over, U.S. v. Falso, seemed likely to go against police who had charged a man with possessing child pornography after they entered his house on a wrongly issued search warrant. Instead, Sotomayor ruled in favor of the officers. "It wasn't just...