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...Meyer's restaurants are not alone. A survey released Friday morning shows businesses around the New York City area are already feeling the pinch of Wall Street's recent downturn. The survey, conducted by the local chapter of the National Association of Purchasing Management, found that business managers believe the Big Apple's economic conditions have deteriorated 21% from just three months ago, to an index level of 35.6. Any reading below 50 means the city's economy is contracting. The index stood at 59 just a year ago. "Managers say business conditions are bad and will stay that...
...client recently told her he thinks he will have to mothball his Gulfstream and start flying commercial. Spindel, though, isn't negotiating. In fact, she says her business is as busy as ever, though more and more of her clients are coming from outside the New York City area. "I guess one would say that hiring me is a luxury good, but people don't want to be alone, particularly now," says Spindel. "The market for love never dies, not even in this economy...
...Needs Now I appreciated Michael Kinsley's essay on the desirable leadership quality that is toxic to mention because of its allegedly élitist overtones: intelligence [Oct. 27]. I have long felt that U.S. presidential candidates, much like graduate students, should be subject to a preliminary examination in their area of expertise. Candidates should have some knowledge of, if not proficiency in, world history, religions, cultures, geography. As it is now, we assume the media and debates will ferret out deficiencies in candidates' education that might lead to serious, perhaps deadly decisions - and that is not always the case. Marcetta...
...suspect he’d take this as a compliment. “Squeal,” Barlow’s third food-writing venture, catalogues his quest to eat the whole hog in a yearlong journey through Galicia—a rain-battered, idiosyncratic area in Northern Spain. His challenge is to “eat every part of the pig, in as many places as possible,” but with a Dionysian disregard for order, Barlow leaves the rules of the game frustratingly vague. How will he know if he eats every part? How much of each...
...seated in the costuming area of Loeb Experimental Theatre, Dang, who has been involved in fashion since high school, talks about her experiences costuming for various shows at Harvard. One such show was “Playboy of the Western World,” a play that Dang insists was “a lot more innocuous than it sounds.” Dang also created her own collection for the student design program of last year’s Identities Fashion Show. So, it comes as no surprise that this senior is calm and collected with only five hours...