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Most elected officials maintain an image. New York City's Mayor Ed Koch flaunts a style: confident, snappish, moralistic and salty as a delicatessen waiter's banter. For better or worse, he has come to symbolize the world's one-dimensional view of a New Yorker: an abrasive pavement-pounder who is allergic to trees. Koch obliged this perception after taking over Gracie Mansion in 1977; he kept his small apartment in Greenwich Village as a weekend retreat. He was not being cute; those who have followed the mayor's career should now realize that...
...TeleVideo Systems, a maker of computers and computer terminals. At twelve, Hwang was smuggled from North Korea to South Korea by U.S. troops under some maps and canvas in an Army truck. After arriving in the U.S., he paid his way through college working as a dishwasher and waiter in Lake Tahoe casinos. Hwang gained business experience by running a 7-Eleven store in San Jose, Calif., and then in 1975 used his savings of $9,000 to start making video games in his Cupertino, Calif., garage...
Management and the workers union compromised on the wage issue by agreeing to a one-time cash bonus for waiters that increases in value with seniority. Greg Roberts, a waiter at Ferdinand's and shop steward of the union, said that a waiter with more than five years experience would receive a $200 bonus, while one with six months to a year on the job would...
Roby Fader, a waiter at Ferdinand's, said that "I think we were all fearing that we'd lose their jobs. It's good to be back. I feel good about it and I think most people...
...held by husband and wife, and the juxtaposition of twittering romantic expectations and tragic neuroses. Reading Rose's work is like turning a valentine to find graffiti underneath: not a pleasant experience, but a compelling one. The couples could not have been better chosen. Each contains one famous waiter: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens and George Eliot, nee Marian Evans. Three of the unions were devoid of passion, one degenerated into widely publicized scandal, and the sole happy one was the most shocking of all. George Eliot dared to live with a man without...