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...city. We do not consider ourselves fundamentally so different from Duluthites or Sioux Fallsians or Fargo-Moorheaders. We all eat the same brand of corn flakes, and one size sock fits all. However, in Minneapolis, the 42nd largest American city, there are people who imagine it to be the Manhattan of the Midwest, the Paris of the Prairie. This is embarrassing to us St. Paulites, like knowing a small man with a bad toupee who thinks he is Tom Cruise. What can you say to him, other than "Stop that...
...Comet Hale-Bopp. Not that the comet is especially hard to spot. For weeks it has been putting on a show to rival last year's Comet Hyakutake. People have seen Hale-Bopp, without a telescope or even binoculars, from such unpromising, light-polluted vantage points as midtown Manhattan and downtown Chicago. Amateur astronomers have been taking telescopic photos of the comet for well over a year; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Hale-Bopp home page on the World Wide Web NewProducts.jpl.nasa.gov/comet has posted more than a thousand already, and more are streaming in all the time. The problem...
...tuitions at virtually the same rate each year and consistently resulted in base prices within $10 to $195 of each other. Penn and Columbia did likewise, ending each year in an even steamier embrace--within $36 to $110 of each other--even though the costs of doing business in Manhattan are far higher...
Billy Adare, Payback's in-over-his-head hero, is an honest law student who pays his tuition by working summers at the family trade of sandhogging, in a big water tunnel being dug beneath Manhattan. The work is dangerous enough at the best of times, but jostling has broken out between Irish construction thugs from Hell's Kitchen, who by tradition control labor in the tunnel, and Italian heavies hired by management to break the union. At first Billy tries to ride out the skirmishing. Then his elder brother Paddy, a former prizefighter who is an enforcer...
Granger also worked at the 52nd Street Project, a theater program in Manhattan for inner-city youth. Granger served as a director, and helped teach kids how to write plays, according to Willie Reale, artistic director at the project...