Hoping to Hit the Jackpot,
Thief Takes Phone Home Have pay phones become obsolete in an era when everyone seems to have a cell phone? Apparently not. Just ask the crook the cops arrested on Feb. 6. The fellow caught the eye-and how could he have not?-of Lisa Moran, a plain-clothes officer with the 19th Precinct Read MoreAnd so we've come to the end of the first year of the new
millennium. (The previous statement is, of course, subject to a manual re-count of days, weeks and years, as there appears to be a long-standing dispute as to the precise beginning of said "new millennium," with the liberal interpretation being Jan. 1, 2000, Read MoreI was examining my pocket change recently-the life of letters isn't as exciting as some would have you believe-when I spotted a 1949-S Jefferson nickel. This might not seem as momentous to you as it did to me. But only 9 million of the coins were minted, as opposed to a billion of more recent Read More
On the morning we were leaving for spring vacation a couple of weeks ago, my wife looked out our bedroom window at the apartment across the street. It was 5 A.M. and the lights were on there, too.
I know the husband, slightly. He's English and keeps his bedroom shades drawn. I'm American and keep Read More
