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...Front-Row Seat to History...
Spectators in the know bring their own ladders or milk crates, or arrive in the late afternoon to get a front-row view for the parade that kicks off at 8 p.m. The alternative is an agonizing four hours on cramped tippy toes craning to catch a glimpse over the heads of bystanders packed six deep. If you think that is agony though, consider the poor drag queens who walk the 3-km-long route in 15-cm stilettos. A few floats and costumes may shock?and occasionally the crowd gasps loudly?but more often they simply laugh, applaud...
...smashed up against the metal barrier with eight ski-jacketed arms and elbows waving microphones and tape recorders reaching past me to get to Casey. I try to get away from the crush, which you'd think would make other people happy since it would provide a new front-row audience with FitzRandolph, but I can't leave move. In a daze, it occurs to me that I am now being more intimate with 20 total strangers than I would be except after the most successful of first dates...
...Laden brings some particular, and collectively potent, elements to this equation. As a volunteer in the war that the Islamic rebels of Afghanistan fought against the Soviets in the 1980s, bin Laden had a front-row seat at an astonishing and empowering development: the defeat of a superpower by a gaggle of makeshift militias. Though the U.S., with billions of dollars in aid, helped the militias in their triumph, bin Laden soon turned on their benefactor. When U.S. troops in 1990 arrived in his sacred Saudi homeland to fight Saddam Hussein, bin Laden considered their infidel presence a desecration...
...brand-new nickname: "Fer. Pez" b) A surprise private concert by Luther Vandross c) Front-row seats at New York State Supreme Court d) One last chance to come crawling back...