By Gabriel Snyder 11/06/00 12:00am

The Murky Steve Emerson Surfaces in the Senate Race

If the recent history of New York Senate races is any guide, elections have a tendency to boil down to one oversimplification. In 1998, Senator Chuck Schumer won after it was revealed that incumbent Al D’Amato had called him a “putzhead” in a closed-door meeting. In 1992, Mr. D’Amato won re-election when Bob Abrams called Read More

By Carl Swanson 8/02/99 12:00am

Gear Dumps Expensive Writers; Toby Young Fired Again

The editors at Gear , the magazine founded by Bob Guccione Jr. after he sold Spin , have decided they don’t need all those expensive contract writers, so they’ve ditched a bunch of them. The one-year-old bimonthly, which on its current “Sex Issue” cover describes itself as “the shagadelic magazine for men,” is about to Read More