Copyright 2008 The New York Sun Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:34:01 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Colin Miner :: Stories from The New York Sun http://www.nysun.com/authors/Colin+Miner istoll@nysun.com (Ira Stoll) webmaster@nysun.com en-us COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/sports/pr-maven-wears-pinstripes-and-red-socks/53378/ Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST Yankee fans are no strangers to odd turnabouts. Lou Gehrig died on the anniversary of the day he replaced Wally Pipp at first base. In 2001, the Yankees lost the World Series after being dubbed "America's Team." A couple of weeks ago, on Jackie Robinson Day, the only active player in the Majors still wearing Robinson's no. 42 — Mariano Rivera — gave up a walk-off home run and the Yankees lost. Another involves Cristyne Nicholas, who often is seen sporting a Yankees hat. For Nicholas, the... COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/arts/tunneling-under/53111/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST "All these decades later — as our love affair with cars and airplanes has soured — there is hope that New York can once again reclaim the grandeur of arriving by train in Gotham." In "Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels" (Viking, 384 pages, $27.95), a well written, and very well-researched though imperfect book, Jill Jonnes tries capture that grandeur. She writes of the turn of the previous century with a sense of awe. Unfortunately, some sense... COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/new-york/sharpton-takes-stock/52794/ Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST Jack Newfield, who is missed from these pages, once said the Reverend Al Sharpton's greatest strength is that he knows his weaknesses — and that his greatest weakness is a reluctance bordering on inability to admit to them. Sitting in a red T-shirt in a suite at the Sheraton, getting ready to for the ninth annual National Action Network national convention, Rev. Sharpton politely disagrees. "I think that Jack and I had a fundamental disagreement over what some of my weaknesses were," he says... COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/foreign/how-two-from-ny-aided-peace-in-ireland/52326/ Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST It was raining in Belfast the Monday after St. Patrick's Day, but the sun was about to shine on the peace process. Traffic and weather had assured that Brian O'Dwyer, as close there is to royalty in Irish-American politics in New York, and Christine Quinn, the speaker of the City Council, were late arriving at the seat of government in Northern Ireland, Stormont. There they were scheduled to meet two Protestant leaders, Jeffrey Donaldson and Peter Robinson of the Democratic Unionist Party. The... COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/new-york/doctoroffs-healthy-fear/51434/ Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST "I don't think you can sell fear," the deputy mayor for economic development, Daniel Doctoroff, says as he sits in the Bronx Conference Room at City Hall, explaining his quandary — he wants New Yorkers to be afraid but would prefer not having to scare them. "You need to sell the need to invest in the future." Mayor Bloomberg next month will release a comprehensive plan for the sustainability of the city. It will be based on roughly 18 months of research — overseen by Mr. Doctoroff — into the... COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/new-york/nys-action-brings-lights-cameras/47071/ Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST When the Academy Award nominations are announced tomorrow, chances are films made in New York will be among the possible honorees. Film and television production in New York City reached record levels in 2006, according to the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting. There were a record 34,718 shooting days on public property for some 276 films, a 10% increase from the year before and more than double the number in 2002, according to the head of the office, Commissioner Katherine... COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/arts/mailer-on-bush-obama-writing/47109/ Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST Norman Mailer didn't set out to write a novel about Adolf Hitler. "I was finally going to do the second volume of 'Harlot's Ghost' [his novel about the CIA] that I had been promising all these years," he said, sitting on the top floor of his brownstone in Brooklyn with its expansive views of the Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan. "I had an interesting notion that Harlot was going to be very interested in Carl Jung and that was going to be the intellectual vibration of the book. And then a... COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/national/clinton-brownback-enter-race/47053/ Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:30:10 EST NEW YORK – It was a day for hat tossing as Senator Clinton, Democrat of New York, entered the race for the Democratic nomination for President and hours later was followed by Senator Brownback, Republican of Kansas, who announced he will seek the Republican nomination. Governor Richardson, Democrat of New Mexico, is expected to announce his bid to become the nation's first Hispanic president Senator Clinton's bid, while long expected, is historic. She is the first former First Lady – her... COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/arts/mailer-on-bush-obama-and-writing/47046/ Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:44:46 EST Norman Mailer didn't set out to write a novel about Adolf Hitler. "I was finally going to do the second volume of "Harlot's Ghost" [his novel about the CIA] that I had been promising all these years," he said, sitting on the top floor of his brownstone in Brooklyn with its expansive views of the Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan. "I had an interesting notion that Harlot was going to be very interested in Carl Jung and that was going to be the intellectual vibration of the book. And then a... COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/new-york/democratic-party-boss-may-be-charged/46678/ Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST The convicted former boss of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, Clarence Norman, may soon face charges of selling judgeships, according to a report posted Saturday on the Web site of the Village Voice. The paper reports that Norman, who is already facing up to six years in jail, will "now be indicted again for demanding payoffs" in return for elevating Howard Ruditzky to the bench. But sources familiar with the investigation caution that no new action is "imminent." A spokesman for the Brooklyn... COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/travel/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west/17082/ Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EST Viewers of "Deadwood," the popular HBO series set in the American West of 1876, are likely to associate the South Dakota town with violence, corruption, and extreme profanity. On a recent trip through the real Deadwood, however, I heard not a single bad word. Nestled in the Black Hills of South Dakota, about an hour's drive from Mount Rushmore, Deadwood has attracted fortune-seekers since 1876, not long after troops under the command of George Armstrong Custer discovered gold was plentiful in... COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/new-york/onetime-nazi-guard-who-settled-in-brooklyn-misses/15376/ Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EST Jakob Reimer could almost be a poster child for the American dream. He settled in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn in 1952. After starting out as a bartender in the Times Square Schrafft's, he worked his way up to manager and part-owner. He ran the Wise Potato Chips franchise in Brooklyn, was married, had two kids, got divorced, then remarried. He never even got a parking ticket. The image would be perfect if it weren't for his past as a Nazi officer who helped clear Warsaw and other cities of... Colin Miner http://www.nysun.com/new-york/pontiff-made-a-pair-of-colorful-nyc-visits/11605/ Mon, 4 Apr 2005 00:00:00 EST Pope John Paul II visited New York City twice during his papacy: in October 1979 and in 1995. He first set foot in the city as pope on October 2, 1979, only a year after becoming pope, arriving at La Guardia Airport from Boston. He headed first to the United Nations, where he met with the secretary-general, Kurt Waldheim, and addressed the General Assembly. The pope then had lunch with the pope's representative to the United Nations, Archbishop Giovanni Cheli, at the legate's Manhattan... COLIN MINER http://www.nysun.com/national/cia-was-scooped-in-eichmann-case/11212/ Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST The Central Intelligence Agency discovered that Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi fugitive who escaped American custody just after World War II, was captured by Israeli agents in 1960 the same way the rest of the world did: from press reports out of Israel. The director of central intelligence, Allen Dulles, sent an urgent cable to agents in Germany asking them to check the Berlin Document Center for all files on Eichmann. The cable cited "NEWS RELEASES" that "EICHMANN IN ISRAELI CUSTODY. WILL BE TRIED...