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...James R. “Jamie” Houghton ’58, chair emeritus of Corning, Inc., and a member of the Board of Directors of a half dozen companies ranging from Exxon Mobil to MetLife, who has most recently filled his time as the chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the youngest member of the search committee—the only one under 60—Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur...
BARBARA EHRENREICH'S Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America was published in May by Metropolitan Books...
...After Obara was arrested, Iizuka says he found out that three more women who worked at his club had been drugged and assaulted. A source in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police acknowledges that Iizuka contacted the Azabu police department in 1997 but he says, "there were not enough concrete details to judge whether there was an issue of crime...
...little before noon on March 1, Tim Blackman, his girlfriend and his two surviving children opened a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne on the beach where Lucie had been recovered. With representatives from Scotland Yard and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police looking on, as well as dozens of paparazzi buzzing the water in speedboats, the Blackmans planted a small evergreen tree in Lucie's memory. Tim said of his daughter's end, "I hope Lucie had a glass of champagne, felt a bit woozy and passed out." They prayed. They cried. And then, for some reason, they started to laugh...
Reality TV is supposed to coarsen the culture, accelerating America's highly anticipated slide into the Sodom-Gomorrah metropolitan area. Survivor: The Australian Outback proved to be a huge letdown. TINA WESSON, sweet part-time nurse from Tennessee, took the million dollars, but sensitivity flowed from the other finalists too: COLBY DONALDSON (weepy mama's boy), RODGER BINGHAM (weepy schoolteacher), ELISABETH FILARSKI (weepy outback nymph) and KEITH FAMIE (just plain weepy--he broke down on live TV to propose marriage to his girlfriend). "I wanted it to be a kinder game," said Wesson, of the unfortunate lack of backstabbing...