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Amid the welter of toll-free 800 numbers, this one certainly stood out. Callers to 1-800-WANT-POT got exactly what they wanted -- $50 envelopes containing one-eighth of an ounce of marijuana delivered by bicycle to Manhattan street corners. The service was allegedly the brainchild of Michael Cesar, 48, a felon who formerly ran a similar service under the name DIAL-A- JOINT. Now Cesar faces serious time in a joint of a different kind. Last week he was arrested by New York City narcotics officers at his Greenwich Village comic-book shop -- where cops on the scene...
...would eliminate 5,000 jobs, or more than 6% of its work force. The struggling company, which has been selling off assets to reduce its $2.6 billion debt load, said it may show a deficit for the fourth quarter as well. The losses, which would give Blumenthal's brainchild two straight years of red ink, raise doubts about the company's ability to be a major contender...
...Opening Day, Columbia Coach Ray Tellierdroned on and on about the cosmic possibilities ofRestic's brainchild. The following week,Northeastern Coach Paul Pawlak was nearly reducedto tears by "all those options, those options."Cornell Coach Jim Hofher said Harvard "does moreoffensively than anyone in America...
...AIDS Institute was Fineberg's brainchild, and he says he founded it in the hopes that it "inspires communication and innovation in looking at research as an interdisciplinary and cooperative venture...
...Rodeo is the brainchild of San Francisco developer Douglas Stitzel, a onetime University of California, Berkeley, Sanskrit scholar turned businessman, who is charging his tony tenants top dollar for their new space. Tiffany, Cartier, Sulka, Valentino and other luxury outlets that plan to arrive by November will pay as much as $250,000 a month rent...