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Toole was a doctoral candidate at Tulane University, and many of his papers, including the manuscript for Confederacy, are on public display in the university archives. Toole grew up nearby, at 390 Audubon Street, and the surrounding Uptown neighborhood is one of New Orleans' flossiest. Beautiful Audubon Park is rich in native flora, including centuries-old live oaks, and the zoo will captivate family members too young to enjoy Toole or trees...
...Howard University, Combs was a business major but schooled himself in party throwing. In 1989 he dropped out and returned to New York. He joined Andre Harrell's Uptown Records, where he rose rapidly from intern to vice president, launching Bad Boy there in 1991. Combs' greatest debacle still dogs him: a disastrous stampede that year in which nine people died at an oversold party he promoted with the rapper Heavy D. Last month a judge found that both men and New York's City College, the host of the event, shared responsibility for the deaths, although the finding carries...
...impatient that Harrell fired him. "He was hot tempered, very passionate, very creative," says Harrell, who now is a consultant to Bad Boy. "But Puff was like Dennis the Menace. Every now and then something would get broken." (Combs' huffing and puffing earned him his nickname.) When Combs exited Uptown, Arista's Clive Davis stepped in and gave him another chance...
Wednesday, Feb. 4 From Meg To: Tom The best thing I saw today was a very gleeful bicyclist zooming uptown, stopped right near me on the corner of 57th. While he was waiting to cross he started playing his Game Boy which he had slung around his neck...
...elementary school and is about to be booted out of his apartment. He navigates his way through family, a friend's performance-art show, his ex-girlfriend's family, the parent-teacher party at the school where he used to work and a ritzy soiree of uptown socialites, hosted by a man with whom he once had a one-night stand...