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...Once I was a youth (yout') who spent his happiest summers on the Jersey shore, singing and listening to songs very like these. And now, as a Manhattan snob, I have a message for dear old Broadway: you need shows pretty much like this...
...awash in money," says a Democratic appropriations aide. Of the nearly $25 billion assigned to projects, checks totaling only about $6.2 billion have been cashed. As a result, a third supplemental-funding bill sent to Congress suggests taking back $2.3 billion in aid. Mayor Ray Nagin attempted to shore up support for the city's recovery before Congress last week, but he came home with little new. The comment of a G.O.P. aide was typical: "We want to see them helping themselves before they ask us for help...
...Guinn enters the final year of his busy two terms in office, his signature achievement remains the $830 million tax hike, a still controversial but realistic step to shore up the overstretched budget of the nation's fastest-growing state. "People say, 'Well, growth ought to pay for growth,' but I'm here to tell you, it doesn't," says Guinn, 69. When he was elected in 1998, little about Guinn's low-key personality or career background indicated he would try to be such a radical reformer or turn out to be such a polarizing figure. Having spent most...
That kind of hand-wringing about margins gets under Zander's skin. At an investors' conference in September where he intended to promote the Rokr, he was instead peppered with questions about how the company would shore up its profit margins once sales of the Razr start to slow. At the end of the meeting, an exasperated Zander started venting to an attendee about the evils of short-term thinking on Wall Street. "I work for shareholders," he said in an interview in his Schaumburg, Ill., office three weeks later. "But, that said, are you a long-term shareholder...
...this time, we sat in the front of the police car. The police log will never be the same. A minute-by-minute analysis: 8:14 p.m.: FM’s escort, officer Steven Fumicello, arrives fashionably late. A shaved head, an effortless smile—and a North Shore accent to boot—greet us. “Have you ever done one of these before?” he asks. FM, regrettably, is a virgin. 8:38 p.m.: Fumicello does a quick run through the MAC. “You never know what you?...