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Every New Yorker has a Times Square story. Rudolph Giuliani, the city's high-strung mayor, fondly recalls trips to see the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at the Paramount theater. "They were my favorite comedians as a youngster," Giuliani recalls. "The crowds would spill right out onto Times Square. It would almost be like a New Year's Eve celebration. Dean and Jerry would hang out the window of their dressing room and throw programs and things down to their fans." According to Giuliani, Times Square in those days was "the center of the world" --just...
...accident). Some directors praise the actor's craft and attitude. "Val gives you nuance piled on nuance," says Heat director Michael Mann. "I had a spectacular time working with him." But others hear the word Kilmer and reach for their revolver. "He isn't just a high-strung, difficult actor," says Joel Schumacher, who hired Kilmer for Batman Forever and apparently rued the day from Day 1. "He's a deeply troubled man in need of psychiatric help...
...thing more remarkable than the heartbreaking squalor visible everywhere in Zaire these days is the extent to which the man responsible for it has insulated himself from the despair and the destitution. For more than 30 years Mobutu Sese Seko has imposed an uneasy unity on nearly 250 tribes strung across an expanse of Central Africa the size of Western Europe. The natural richness of this region and the willingness of Western governments to bankroll his regime have enabled Zaire's President to indulge in an uninterrupted saturnalia of misrule and kleptomania. He has squandered his country's wealth, ravaged...
...this point, genes have controlled the unfolding of the brain. As soon as axons make their first connections, however, the nerves begin to fire, and what they do starts to matter more and more. In essence, say scientists, the developing nervous system has strung the equivalent of telephone trunk lines between the right neighborhoods in the right cities. Now it has to sort out which wires belong to which house, a problem that cannot be solved by genes alone for reasons that boil down to simple arithmetic. Eventually, Berkeley's Goodman estimates, a human brain must forge quadrillions of connections...
...last week, the wire-strung lights above Mass. Ave. near the Coop and Baskin Robbins glimmered merrily against the November cold. Retailers played Christmas music to lure shoppers into their stores. And, most appalling, the day after Halloween, CVS replaced its bags of orange and black candy corn with bundles of red and green foil-wrapped goodies...