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...means the free-form riding habits of 5,000 or so messengers. Inspired by the fact that more deliveries mean more money, many messengers whiz around the city in pseudokamikaze style, heeding neither red lights nor one-way signs, zagging on and off sidewalks, leaving behind a wake of screeching tires and cursing pedestrians. Many messengers even opt for bikes without brakes, to save on a few pounds of heavy metal...
...1970s, but then added bright-colored, practical sports clothes. In 1983 Fisher made two shrewd moves. He bought Banana Republic, a San Francisco retailer with three stores and a catalog operation that sold trendy travel and safari wear, and he hired a new president, Millard Drexler, the marketing whiz from the Bronx who had turned around the faltering Ann Taylor chain...
Still, New York audiences took one new ballerina to their hearts, and they were right. Though not a technical whiz, Nina Ananiashvili, 24, has a lovely, sensuous line, strong feet and a crisp attack. She is also, ineffably, an old- fashioned girl whose spirit summons the perfumed kingdoms of ballet. The most important advantage she has happens to be young Liepa, 25, her frequent partner. Fair as she is dark, he is attentive, handsome and gallant. By keeping things simple and performing on a common impulse, the pair gave several performances that were more satisfying than their showier elders...
...economist, Greenspan also resists easy classification. Though unmistakably conservative, he has never joined any of the doctrinaire factions of right-wing economics, such as the monetarists or supply-siders. He is a technical whiz who ponders computer printouts on everything from yesterday's price of steel scrap to next week's projected cost of cocoa beans. Says Frank Ikard, a former Texas Congressman who is a friend of Greenspan's: "He is the kind of person who knows how many thousands of flat-headed bolts were used in a Chevrolet and what it would do to the national economy...
Such a request was merely par for the course for this senior whiz kid from Williston, Long Island. Born on June 8, 1966, to Japanese parents who met as students at the University of Pennsylvania, Ueno has been wowing her teachers and fellow students since grammar school. In sixth grade she began studying French, the first of five languages she has mastered, including Latin, German, Japanese and Italian. In the tenth grade as a student at the Wheatley School in Old Westbury, N.Y., at the instigation of her history teacher, she completed, in addition to her regular course work, three...