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Those fidgety day traders didn't bother waiting for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's second decision in the Microsoft antitrust trial. As the 5 p.m. announcement drew nearer on Monday, the desktop dealers dumped more and more of their investments in the tech-heavy NASDAQ, and by the time Jackson, who four months earlier had found that Microsoft wielded monopoly power, delivered a guilty verdict on two of three counts of abusing that power, they had produced a record 348-point, 7.6 percent plunge...
...government workers, small-business owners and retirees--would become, in many respects, a sovereign nation and could, with the state's approval, open their casino. And not just any casino. Their preferred site would be on the Bridgeport waterfront--only 55 miles from New York City, and even nearer to the city's wealthy northern suburbs...
...Will's words that were most chilling as the fiery rioters and explosions marched nearer...
...sure ticket to immortality. John Kennedy Jr. was not in politics (though remarkably, everyone now seems to remember him as headed that way). Just as well, perhaps ? we don?t much like our politicians these days, and private-sector John-John (our name for him) was his father brought nearer and friendlier, the affable scion on a SoHo street corner. And he certainly wasn?t ugly ? indeed, he was handsomer in person, handsomer than his father, handsomer than just about anybody else we liked to think we knew. But what if he hadn?t been? What if he had been...
...Nearer Manhattan's southern tip, pre-schoolers will recognize the waterfront from Donald Crews' picture book Harbor and Hardie Gramatky's tugboat tale Little Toot. Older ones will recall Fraunces Tavern as the setting of Judith Berry Griffin's Phoebe the Spy, the tale of an African-American girl who supposedly saved George Washington's life...