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Back patent leather bustiers reign at the Masquerade, but not all tricksters aim to emulate women of the night. Children--shockingly, they still exist outside of our hallowed Ivory Tower--don darling guises that garner enough candied corn to put any stained Gap dress to shame. The cute crowd's preferred costumes this Halloween were, as perhaps expected, a smattering of superheros, monsters and children's movie characters...
Unfortunately, our Charlie Croker is also a man in trouble. His latest development, a grandiose tower named Croker Concourse, is undertenanted and hemorrhaging money. He owes PlannersBanc in Atlanta $515 million and an assortment of other lenders $285 million more, and he can't even meet interest on all that debt, never mind repay the principal...
Harvard professors are no novelty on Nightline or in The New York Times. Now, one is staking a name in the CD racks at Tower Records, HMV, and Newbury Comics...
...medalists are chosen by the President, following nominations by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The NEH selects those who "get out of the Ivory Tower and reach large audiences," according to NEH spokesperson Jim Turner. Their activities can include developing educational programs or carrying out meaningful research, he said...
This time Las Vegas is going upmarket, trading showgirl pasties for showy Picassos, $3.99 buffets for $20 entrees at Wolfgang Puck's and neon glitz for European glamour. Soon you will be able to ride a gondola through Venice, dine atop a 50-story Eiffel Tower and surf in the ocean. And you'll be happy to pay up for it, or there will be some very unhappy investors. "The driving feature of Vegas will always be gambling, but the days of giving away rooms to gamblers are over," says Stephen Bollenbach, CEO of Hilton, which is building...