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MaAnaney says she found the blanket in Manhattan, and as a collector of the Elvis stamps, she "just had to have...
WASHINGTON -- For its holiday window displays, the Macy's flagship store in Manhattan chose to create White House Christmas scenes, but one tableau, featuring Chelsea Clinton reading in bed, is missing: the White House objected to it, and the store had it removed. The Clintons have also decided that Chelsea will not appear on their Christmas cards...
...before dismissing it entirely, one should go to Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art this month to see the "mid-career retrospective" of drawings, installations, sculpture and performance leftovers by the movement's chef d'ecole, Mike Kelley. In the past few years, Kelley has become the most influential American artist of his generation. This doesn't mean that he's good all the time or even much of it -- only that he has strong lungs, a weird confessional talent and a lot of imitators...
Perhaps the best way to explain Antonio Pagan is to remember that it took Richard Nixon to open China. As councilman for Manhattan's Lower East Side, Pagan may be the only elected official in America who is an openly gay Puerto Rican liberal. Yet these days he is best known as the champion of a distinctly unprogressive-sounding cause: an effort to sweep the homeless people from the streets of his district. In 1991 he spearheaded a successful campaign to chase squatters out of Tompkins Square Park. Now he is leading the charge to block radical gay activists from...
...national spotlight trains on people such as Larry Hogue, a chronic mental patient and crack abuser who terrorized Manhattan's Upper West Side, or Andres Huang, the transient accused of building the campfire that recently set off a raging blaze in California. "About two years ago, we began to see what is almost a national arms race to criminalize homelessness," says Madeleine Stoner, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California. "People are beginning to fear for their safety." Concurs Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, the man charged by the Clinton Administration with devising...