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...Canadian-born Vickrey, who died while driving to a conference three days after winning the prize, was known for his voracious curiosity and sometimes eccentric behavior. He often roller-skated from Manhattan's 125th Street train station to his classes on the Columbia campus and enjoyed sitting in on colleagues' lectures and asking pointed questions. He was keenly aware of the passage of time. "I have left undone many things that I ought to have done," he once wrote, "and can only hope that there is enough health left in me to make good some of the deficiency...
...years ago, if you got around much in the clubs and artists' spaces of downtown Manhattan, you might have found yourself at one of Nan Goldin's slide shows. Tattooed loveboys, innocents abroad, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown--in her slides they drank and smoked and coupled, or just deployed themselves gravely across the staging grounds of East Village life. Goldin had been taking pictures of herself and her friends since the early 1970s, first around Boston, where she was a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, then in the lofts and hangouts...
Such problems notwithstanding, countless credit-card wannabes continue to crowd into the field. Next week Wal-Mart and Chase Manhattan Bank will roll out a no-frills MasterCard with no annual fee and an annual interest rate of 14.48%. "We found that people really don't care that much about special promotions," says Keith Morris, a spokesman for the largest U.S. retailer. "They want a card with a fixed low-interest rate that won't go up after 60 or 90 days." But Wal-Mart is baiting its hook with a 9.9% teaser rate to encourage holders of other cards...
...sits in his homey Manhattan office, its walls enlivened by posters of his movies, the clouds quickly pass. The major films of his career seem to herald happily dramatic life changes for him. Following Schindler's List, Neeson, a fabled ladies' man, married actress Natasha Richardson. They have since had two children: Michael, 2, and Daniel, born last August, only a week before Neeson won the Best Actor award for Michael Collins at the Venice Film Festival...
...YORK: Right now, if you happen to live in the largest U.S. media market, about the only way you can see the brand-new, much-ballyhooed 24-hour Fox cable news channel is by standing outside the company's Sixth Avenue studios in midtown Manhattan and looking through the windows. After being frozen out of the New York market, Fox parent company News Corp. filed suit Wednesday to force Time Warner Cable to carry the fledgling network there. Fox argues that Time Warner, under an arrangement with the FTC specifying that it would carry another cable news channel besides...