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Immediately after the second plane hit, the Chief of Department of the NYPD ordered a second Level 4 mobilization, bringing the total number of NYPD officers responding to close to 2,000.
Instead of a military victory, Mobutu now seems to be angling for some kind of coalition government, playing off his chief political rival in the capital against the military leader of the rebel forces.
The chief center of population of the Sherman quadrangle is called Dwyer, but the post office at Dwyer is called Faywood Post Office.
He is receiving such a princely sum from the University of Illinois not just because he's famous--or notorious--but because he was the chief architect of two of the most well-thought-of (though controversial) American academic programs in the 1980s and '90s, Johns Hopkins University's Humanities Center and Duke University's English department.
The latest industry tumult is over the resignation of Random House Editor in Chief Harry Evans, who doled out mammoth advances to celebrities such as Dick Morris and Marlon Brando, only to see their books bomb.