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...1960s and '70s; after a battle with Parkinson's disease; in New York City. A stickler for quality who made just 14 movies in a three-decade career, he popularized the duo of Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973) and made acclaimed film versions of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and John Irving's The World According to Garp...
...sweatshop. He brought in a state trooper to run it undercover, then hired 30 laborers who had no idea it was a front. The shop set up on Chrystie Street in the city's garment district, turning out shirts, pants and sweaters. But the sting took longer than anyone had anticipated. "Every two weeks Eliot would come in asking for more money," says Michael Cherkasky, who headed the investigation division (and is now president of risk-consulting firm Kroll Inc.). "We were actually stuck running a business--and losing money. I said, 'Eliot, you're becoming a shmatte salesman...
Harvard will attempt to erase the sting of defeat with a successful showing in the Showdown...
...vitamin A. You may be wondering how anybody could eat nettles. Try this for a healthy salad: steep nettles in cold water for 15 minutes, dry, and mix with a simple dressing made of yogurt, mayonnaise, lemon juice, salt and pepper. It's tasty, crunchy - and doesn't sting...
...much as $14,400 a year for kids ages 2 1/2 to 5, some of whom get picked up after class by chauffeurs. The school has just 65 openings a year, for which it interviews 300 children and their parents. Woody Allen, Michael J. Fox, Kevin Kline and Sting have sent their kids there. In 1999 the New York Observer reported that Madonna's little girl Lourdes was turned down...