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Then came Sept. 11. Rolling black clouds of smoke and dust drifted over to his neighborhood in Brooklyn. Sanders, like people everywhere else, was depressed by the attacks. His problems and successes were dwarfed by their implications. Finding work got even harder. He had a second interview for a janitor job at a Brooklyn YMCA but was finally told he was "too good for the job." "What does that mean? Was I dressed too nicely?" he says. In October he broke down crying in an elevator in Manhattan after being rejected for a messenger...
...Sandra Bullock (Miss Congeniality) and Madonna (The Next Best Thing). But virtually no one realized he had this kind of performance in him. "For the last couple of months, I've been getting a lot of backhanded compliments, but it still feels good," says Bratt, who learned to chain-smoke for the part and immersed himself in the culture of the Lower East Side neighborhood where Pinero lived...
...cell taken from an adult animal, has developed the disease several years earlier than is normal for a sheep. Roslin scientist Ian Wilmut called for systematic reviews of the health of cloned animals. Profile: But She's So Young AUSTRALIA Black Christmas for Sydneysiders For more than 14 days smoke drifted over Sydney's famous Opera House while hot winds fanned an encircling band of flame ever closer to the city. As 20,000 firefighters tackled more than 100 bush fires, police arrested 23 people, 15 of them between the ages of nine and 16, suspected of deliberately starting...
...prices and rent are too high—the Mom and Pop stores have gone, it’s all very inconvenient,” says one local resident, who only goes by the name “Valentine.” The “smoke store” he used to shop at, for example, has been sacrificed for a chain store. “Now I need to go to Boston or even New Hampshire to get cigars,” he says. “It’s not that hometown community...
...Olympiad.” The flags of many nations hung from walls or sprang from centerpieces; bright cloth napkins bedecked the tables. The theme from “Chariots of Fire,” as well as other vaguely martial music, rang from speakers. With cryptic symbolism, a smoke machine belched beside the Annenberg card swiper’s desk. Some dining hall workers were festively clad in funny hats...