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  Bomb Plot - Making the Case for a Wider Conspiracy in Oklahoma City

  DENVER--The middle-aged man in the black-and-white shirt looked like just another tedious defense witness in the trial of accused Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols. But halfway through the man's testimony, Judge Richard Matsch's courtroom became cha...

  by James Ridgeway on December 23, 1997

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  Ground Zero

  Back in April, Columbia University applied for a key $10 million National Science Foundation grant to reshape the school's technology program--and potentially the city itself. The New York new media industry has exploded to almost $5.7 billion in rev...

  by Austin Bunn on December 16, 1997

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  Kathy Acker 1944-1997 - Matias Viegener on her last day with Kathy Acker

  Kathy Acker made her reputation as a novelist by combining sexually transgressive content and postmodern technique, long before it was fashionable. As Acker herself might have described it, her work was a quest to discover what it means to be a cunt....

  by C. Carr on December 9, 1997

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  Access Denied - Did the thought police kill a Web site?

  A few weeks ago at the University of Pittsburgh, John Vranesevich, a freshman and founder of AntiOnline, a Web site about Internet security,stayed up well into the night trying to figure out why no one could access his site. Through a deal with the u...

  by Edmund Lee on December 9, 1997

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  Twenty-five Reasons To Develop an Edifice Complex

  Jerry I. Speyer, an owner of Rockefeller Center, emerged yesterday as the winning bidder for another international landmarkthe Chrysler Building, the beautiful Art Deco skyscraper that set off a fierce bidding war this year despite its long and trou...

  by Guy Trebay on December 9, 1997

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  Serial Mom - Lucky Seven Pays Off Big When You're Corn-Fed and White

  Planning a litter? Well, the first thing you'll want to do is relocate to Carlisle, Iowa, a place where anxiety that the world will soon run out of white people runs so high that you can enlist a whole town of 3400 in your obstetric fantasia. Think I...

  by Guy Trebay on December 2, 1997

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  Behind the Screen - Online Stripping Takes Off

  In the gutsy black-and-white noir fable Gilda (1946), the sultry title character (Rita Hayworth), just married to a casino's sinister owner, meets up with her old flame, Johnny Farrell, now her husband's best friend. Two hours of plot twists later, t...

  by Rachel Shteir on December 2, 1997

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  Modern Art - A Museum Goes Digital

  Revolution can be a gradual process, particularly when what's being reformed is something as massive, influential, and entrenched as the world's major art museums. The Museum of Modern Art took a small step for art and a large step for museums and th...

  by Hillary Rosner on November 25, 1997

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  Digital Dogfight - Online City Guides Saturate the Web

  Online New York is getting as crowded as its real-life counterpart. Confident that easy-to-browse entertainment listings will attract affluent urban readers on the go--and the advertisers that go with them--old and new media companies alike have been...

  by Robert Levine on November 25, 1997

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  Cheryl Hopwood vs. State of Texas - Sixteen of the Admitted Blacks Had Lower Scores Than the Rejected Whites

  When University of Texas law professor Lino Graglia said publicly that black and Mexican American students are not "academically competitive" with white students at elite universities, there descended on him a firestorm of rage and contempt. The exte...

  by Nat Hentoff on November 25, 1997

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  The Pain Artist - Bob Flanagan was a Practical Masochist. He Fought 'Sickness with Sickness.'

  When Bob Flanagan performed in New York in 1991, potential spectators were warned: "Not for the faint of heart." And that was back in the golden age of transgression, when artists routinely presented the unspeakable to audiences of the imperturbable....

  by C. Carr on November 18, 1997

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  And the Cool Site Winner Is... - Robbed

  Susan Lucci, I feel your pain. In what the Netly News has dubbed the "Oscars for the taped-glasses set," my Web site (alone representing Silicon Alley) got its ass kicked last month by Silicon Valley. In a San Francisco music hall stocked with Web ...

  by William Bastone on November 11, 1997

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  Upstart Start-Ups

  The start-up businesses in New York's Silicon Alley have never been comfortable about getting down to numbers--revenue, site traffic, profits, even the coordinates of the ''Alley'' itself (south of 41st? 14th and up? Any address with a decent view of...

  by Austin Bunn on November 11, 1997

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  Theater of Fabulousness - Ebony Fashion Fair Turns 40

  "God created black people, and black people created style,'' says Miss Roj, the philosopher drag queen from George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum. And so it is told, in the lost archives of Negro achievement, that on the seventh day, God sat back and ...

  by Lisa Jones on November 11, 1997

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  Cigar Bar - Fresh from Prison, Lawrence Amoruso Turns Mulberry Street into Tobacco Road

  It is the question that continues to perplex the would-be cyberbusinessman: just how do you make money off the Internet? For Lawrence Amoruso, the answer has been simple: sell cigars, and lots of them. The Little Italy businessman, who last year ...

  by William Bastone on November 4, 1997

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  Rudy's Inner Child - The Mayor's Temper Costs ACORN Contract

  The string of apartment buildings on West 166th Street was supposed to become an emblem of Rudy Giuliani's commitment to affordable housing. Instead, it is a brick-and-mortar personification of the mayor's capacity for thin-skinned political retaliat...

  by J.A. Lobbia on October 28, 1997

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  Raising Elijah - Faction Says Black Muslim Founder Has Returned To Oust Farrakhan

  In a move apparently aimed at wresting control of the black Muslim movement from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a bitter rival of the minister has announced that the NOI's late founder, Elijah Muhammad, has returned and will dethrone Farrakh...

  by Peter Noel on October 28, 1997

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  The Electronic Couch - Group Therapy Goes Online

  Does group therapy mean sitting in a room with other people? Not necessarily, not anymore. Across the country, among the geographically isolated or the merely overscheduled, online groups are gaining in popularity. One threat to conventional psychoth...

  by Elizabeth Zimmer on October 28, 1997

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  Wishing You a Happy Heritage

  One of our readers writes: I'm what's known in the trade as a heavy user. It's an all-American sin I'm not fond of discussing in polite liberal company. I am addicted to greeting cards. The mushier the better. I have stacks at home, waiting for holi...

  by Lisa Jones on October 28, 1997

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  Quiet Down - No noise is good noise

  I'd go out and scream the praises of the new ordinance that will make it a hugely expensive quality-of-life offense to make noise in New York City, but I can't afford the fine. The City Council, in an attempt to be even stricter than Mayor G. (not to...

  by Linda Stasi on October 28, 1997