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Aides to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani quietly asked Yasser Arafat to leave a special New York Philharmonic performance of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" Monday night because he was not invited, the Associated Press reports. Giuliani had said that the PLO leader and Fidel Castro were not to join other dignitaries in town for the U.N. celebration, but Arafat turned up in his highly-visible, checked headress anyway...
...maybe Anand was just afraid that New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani would burst into the room and move a piece for him. The very first match on Sept. 11 started 15 minutes late to accommodate the mayor, who then made the ceremonial first move for Anand. Giuliani pushed the c pawn two squares forward. Vishy, somewhat horrified, wanted e-4. Even though the mayor had taken his hand off the piece, Anand was allowed to change the move--flouting the most basic rule of chess. But, hey, that's show...
Time Warner is still moving toward an agreement to buy Turner Broadcasting, but negotiators expect to take several days to resolve last-minute issues. It might be longer, reports business writer Barbara Rudolph, if cable mogul and key Turner board member John Malone doesn't like the way $8.5 billion media merger develops. "Malone's Telecommunications Inc. is a rival of Time Warner. Malone can either make this deal or prevent it from happening." If or when the deal gels, she adds, "it's not clear whether all those egos (Malone, Time Warner Chairman Gerald Levin and Ted Turner himself...
...line of duty. As many as 100 of New York's finest reportedly groped female hotel guests, stole license plates or fired their weapons in the air. (One hotel says some officers stripped nude, poured beer down a lobby escalator and took turns sliding down.) A mortified Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said at an impromptu Manhattan press conference today: "To take an event that is designed to honor the memory of police officers who have given their lives and desecrate it, I can't imagine what they were thinking." New York Police Commissioner William Bratton said any guilty officers...
...Snowman and The Blue Tail Fly; in Anacortes, Washington. Among the best known of Ives' many stage and screen roles were his starring appearance as Big Daddy in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and his narration of the undying holiday TV special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer...