When Mike Bloomberg looks back at the astonishing amount of money he spent on his improbable Mayoral campaign, he can take some encouragement from knowing that the ads he bought were damn good. So good, in fact, that they made Mr. Bloomberg, a political novice, into a legitimate contender.
The man Mr. Bloomberg tapped to Read More
Overenthusiastic cabbies honking as they cruise up Park Avenue. Nervous glances ricochet around the new Oscar de la Renta store on Madison and 66th. New Yorkers may have been window-shopping, climbing out of crowded subway cars, popping out to Au Bon Pain for a cappuccino as usual, but they were all distracted on this day. Read More
Over the past 15 years, Robert Guccione’s once-lucrative porn
empire has fizzled and is no longer the cash machine it once was. As chairman and chief executive of General Media International
Inc., which publishes Penthouse, Mr.
Guccione could havesoldthe magazinefor perhaps half a billion dollars less
thantwo decades ago. But instead he held on, diversified Read More
When Mike Bloomberg looks back at the astonishing amount of money he spent on his improbable Mayoral campaign, he can take some encouragement from knowing that the ads he bought were damn good. So good, in fact, that they made Mr. Bloomberg, a political novice, into a legitimate contender.
The man Mr. Bloomberg tapped Read More
On the afternoon of Sept. 14, 29-year-old actress Tanya Gingerich stood inside the entrance of a Tribeca newsstand on Hudson Street. A block away, the Tribeca Film Center stood empty, and the usually bustling Bubby’s had become a desolate way station for hundreds of cases of Dole Fruit Cups, Little Debbie Cakes and Baby Wipes Read More
At approximately 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 11, at the intersection of West and Greenwich streets, a line of vehicles was forming: fire trucks, ambulances, dump trucks, tow trucks, city buses. Outside this convoy of city vehicles, city officials, police officers and volunteers paced. Frustrations were high. They had watched the very symbols of the city’s Read More
The city Rudy Giuliani inherited on Jan. 1, 1994, was said to be ungovernable, which is the kind of thing that people west of the Hudson have always said about New York. They said it when Edwin Forrest and his friends broke up a performance by William C. Macready in the Astor Place Opera House Read More
LOS ANGELES–As Bill Clinton raised his hands in triumph one more time, bidding his party goodbye and passing the torch to Al Gore, Democrats gathered in the Staples Center on August 14 bathed in the warm springs of unity.
Once outside, however, it was back to business.
The morning after the President’s speech, Andrew Read More
PHILADELPHIA–These proceedings may well be about the restoration of the Bush dynasty, of a certain time in the late 20th century when the sons and occasional daughter of American aristocracy still could keep the meritocrats at bay. But it hardly is about the past alone, and as a confluence of events in the Philadelphia Marriott Read More
