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...corporate colossus to agree sounds contrary to nature. And for said chief to insist, entirely voluntarily, on busting up his own company into three pieces--well, only last week did the idea change from unheard of to heard of once. In laconic tones, chairman Robert Allen announced at a Manhattan press conference that he had persuaded the AT&T board to break the company into three independent corporations. It will be the biggest corporate split-up ever, as measured by the stock-market value of the splitting company. Not even the court-ordered breakup of AT&T 11 years...
Bailey, who went on to the University of Virginia Law School after graduation, has had a long career in law enforcement. He worked as a Mafia-busting federal prosecutor in Manhattan in the 1980s and later as district attorney here in Middlesex County...
...founded on the odd proposition that people will leave their home computer and trek to a bar--just so they can stare at a computer screen again. "People think it is asocial to sit at a computer terminal at a cafe," says Nicholas Barnes, the co-owner of Manhattan's @ Cafe. "But you can sit at the computer and discuss world politics with the people next to you or people in Singapore." Many singles, in fact, are finding cyberboites a congenial place for real, as opposed to virtual, mingling. It is such a nonintimidating atmosphere, says Joyce Frost, a banker...
Remember when cockroaches were romantic? Mary Cantwell's Manhattan, When I Was Young (Houghton Mifflin; 214 pages; $21.95) is an unusually deft contribution to the durable genre of memoirs on the theme of How I Came of Age in a Greenwich Village Walk-Up, Married an Intellectual and Learned to Survive on My Own in the Big Apple...
...than she had when she first arrived. More comfortable as observer than confessor, she ends where she began--in another Village apartment. This one looks out on a brick-walled garden, and before going to sleep, she opens her bedroom window to get that old charge: the sound of Manhattan "buzzing...