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...Crimson charge was led by a New Yorker's double bagel--Majmudar's 6-0, 6-0 destruction of Kyle Kilegerman at the number two singles spot. Majmudar normally plays the fourth spot, but with Tom Blake out everyone moved up, and for this match Majmudar played ahead of Doran. The lineup change clearly paid...
...native New Yorker, Smith, 43, has lived in Paris since 1991. He had kicked around the American entertainment industry as both a singer and an actor, playing nightclubs and doing bit parts in '80s brat-pack movies, but like too many jazz musicians before him, he has found a more receptive audience in Europe, where he has starred in musicals and performed regularly with French pianist Claude Bolling's big band. Smith describes being hounded for autographs by fans as young as 12 who can rattle off jazz history, whereas "kids back home don't even know who Billie Holiday...
David Remnick, a New Yorker staff writer, is the author of Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, which won the Pulitzer Prize...
...about, even if we don't always realize its complexity. We are loyal to family, old friends, roommates and blockmates, our school, even to our baseball team. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s essay, "The End of Loyalty" which appeared in the March 9 issue of The New Yorker laid out a current philosophical debate: where does loyalty come from, and do we care about its (apparent) demise...
Deborah Garrison's A Working Girl Can't Win (Random House; 61 pages; $15) is an airy, appealing first book, much of which has already been published in the New Yorker, where Garrison, 33, is an editor. It follows a young urban professional in her confusing emotional commute from home to office, heart to head, the world of feeling to the world of work. Sweet and refreshing, though at times so light the lines dissolve on the page--"I'm never going to sleep/ with Martin Amis/ or anyone famous."--the verses go down easy, like frosty cocktails. Some...