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...West, where Palmer also performed, the system was much more formalized. Performers entertaining on a single pier divided themselves into a hierarchy of five classes, based on history and type of performance. Every night, they drew straws to determine who performed where...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All The Square's A Stage | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...heart--until last Tuesday's primary, when he got 15% of the vote, all from write-in ballots, which are more trouble to fill out than Palm Beach butterflies. On Wednesday, Giuliani summoned the three leading mayoral candidates to his makeshift office at the emergency operations center at Pier 92. There, surrounded by talismans--a picture of Churchill walking through London during the Blitz, a dust-caked mask from his near death experience in the shadow of the crumbling Twin Towers, and a large Tupperware container of Wheaties--Giuliani shook the candidates down: either agree to give him three extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three More Months! Three More Months! | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...heart - until last Tuesday's primary, when he got 15% of the vote, all from write-in ballots, which are more trouble to fill out than Palm Beach butterflies. On Wednesday, Giuliani summoned the three leading mayoral candidates to his makeshift office at the emergency operations center at Pier 92. There, surrounded by talismans - a picture of Churchill walking through London during the Blitz, a dust-caked mask from his near death experience in the shadow of the crumbling Twin Towers, and a large Tupperware container of Wheaties - Giuliani shook the candidates down: either agree to give him three extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Giuliani Three More Months | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...collapsed at 9:50 a.m. I had just finished calling my boyfriend in Boston, who would then call my parents in Hong Kong, when we heard another loud noise and saw a large cloud of smoke coming towards us. Everyone was again screaming and running towards the pier. After we had run a few more blocks, Kristin, Kersten, Dee and I decided that the safest thing to do would be to walk uptown...

Author: By Dawn Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From One of the Lucky Ones | 9/21/2001 | See Source »

...Hutchigs, who has watched countless passengers pass through the security gate in his months behind the Pier 4 counter, says he believes the security measures should have been implemented years before, after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Logan Reopens, Security Tightened | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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