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WEDNESDAY CARNEGIE HALL Trend watch: CIA series (three), Supreme Court dramas (two for midseason), cop-lawyer dramas (too, too many), new-reality shows (everywhere). CBS has big hopes for the Ellen DeGeneres comeback comedy and Richard Dreyfuss drama The Education of Max Bickford. She plays a gay woman; he plays a straight professor. We'll see how they fare, but the network wins hands down for its lavish party at Tavern on the Green, where ad execs nibble prawns and mash up next to Survivor 2's Amber Brkich to pose for Polaroids. No mangrove worms, alas...
...points to a column of figures: the percentage of food cost to food sales that day. When the figure drops below 32% (35% is good), the chef--there are 16 across the company--gets a bonus based on the saving. Over a year's time these bonuses max at 30% of salary. The percentage this day is 26.89. "This chef must be jumping up and down," Palmer says...
There's not much the Democrats can do to stop the Republicans. Senate minority leader Tom Daschle tried to delay the bill, but he was undermined when four Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee--its ranking member, Max Baucus of Montana, John Breaux of Louisiana, Arkansas moderate Blanche Lincoln, and the embattled Robert Torricelli of New Jersey--cut separate deals to get their pet rocks in the bill. They then signed on to the G.O.P. plan...
...Finance GOP chair: Charles Grassley, Iowa Democratic chair: Max Baucus, Montana Effect of change: Middle-of-the-road Baucus unlikely to alter Grassley?s course...
...where Phil had to make some phone calls. I organized a Foosball tournament in which the winner would get a half hour with the Cup. Two guys from the art department, Ed Gabel and D.W. Pine, took me on. Unfortunately, my usual partner was home sick, so I grabbed Max Smith, a designer who has never played before, is losing his eyesight and is really named Ken. While Ed and D.W. were running up and down the halls with the Cup, I realized I hadn't seen Phil in some time. I considered etching my name into...