Word: yorks
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Cigar in hand, Jurgen Schrempp last spring was maintaining what had become a ritual on his regular visits to New York City--holding court at the St. Regis Hotel's King Cole Bar with a cluster of DaimlerChrysler's top executives. When an old business acquaintance wandered over to wish him well, Schrempp responded expansively with introductions to "my management board." The acquaintance shook all hands and then said with a chuckle, "But Jurgen, where are the Americans...
...read the details to believe this stuff. The New York Mets say the reason they've pulled out of the auction for free-agent shortstop Alex ("A-Rod") Rodriguez is the extras demanded by agent Scott Boras, who counters that these things were hardly "demands" and that, anyway, he didn't make some of them. Whatever--the add-ons to a 12-year, $300 million contract reportedly include an escalator clause that would automatically bump A-Rod's salary over anyone else's; a luxury box at the stadium for the star's entourage; private jet service; a tent...
...still there, in most of the U.S. But a trip from New York City to Boston that can take close to five hours is now over in about three and a quarter, thanks to a new "tilting" technology that helps the Acela negotiate curves. More than a year behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget, the Acela, which is expected to launch in the Washington-Boston Northeast corridor on Dec. 11, is Amtrak's last chance to prove that intercity passenger rail can be a legitimate travel alternative in the U.S., as it is in Europe and Japan...
...They are so rigorous, however, that even relatively dormant celebs like MATTHEW MODINE must follow them, as we learned last week when several of the Full Metal Jacket star's paintings, believed to have been stolen more than a decade ago, were discovered in a New York City apartment. An N.Y.P.D. detective noticed a painting of Modine with Birdy co-star Nicolas Cage in a Chinatown apartment. After climbing a fire escape to get a closer look, he obtained a search warrant. Seven Modine masterpieces and the actor's family photo album were recovered. Modine had filed a new complaint...
...moments before a scheduled trip to the Los Angeles Criminal Courthouse. Now this modern-day Dr. Richard Kimble is making his way across the country, ducking Johnny Law and helping old friends. Last Tuesday, Dirty, a.k.a. Russell Jones, assisted his Wu-Tang Clan mates during a concert at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom. Much to the surprise of the audience and some of the group's nine members, Dirty, clutching a champagne bottle, performed two songs before addressing his faithful: "Y'all know they had the ODB locked down, right? Well, I'm here to tell you that they...