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January 18, 1999 Issue
"Whenever there's a profit, or a loss of 5 percent, we bail out. You lose two grand and you make four, that's fine with us. We're not married to any stocks." GROUND RULES: Not everything in every issue appears on our website. If it is available online, the article title appears below as acolored, underlined "hot link," which you can click on to read the full text; ifthe article title below is black, the full text of the article is notavailable online. For more information on getting copies or reprints of articlesthat aren't on our web site, call New York Magazine's Information ServicesDepartment at 212-508-0755.
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| FEATURES Wall Street Winners Nineteen ninety-eight was the year playing the market became an extreme sport. Alex Williams names ten players who triumphed under pressure -- from day traders to hedge-fund managers -- and passes along their money-making tips for 1999. The Motley Fool demystifies the high-wire act that is short-selling. And Peggy Edersheim Kalb takes us back to the battered Pacific Rim for a shopping trip. Mr. Cuomo Sends His Regrets High-level Democrats, fund-raisers, and poll numbers are all telling Andrew Cuomo to run for the Senate. He's made his decision (no Hamlet he): He's not running. But does he have an eye on his father's old job? On the Rocks Feuding brothers, tit-for-tat charges, bizarre behavior, and an army of lawyers threaten to bring down the $150 million diamond-studded salon that jeweler-to-the-stars Harry Winston left to sons Ron (the one who went to Harvard), and Bruce (the one who didn't) when he died in 1978. Can this divided House stand? GOTHAM | DEPARTMENTS Media BY MICHAEL WOLFF How a tweedy New York intellectual turned entrepreneur with a series of short biographies and a Hollywood-inspired business plan Restaurants Next Door Nobu is worth the often interminable wait MARKETPLACE Handbags with spine; clocks with more to offer than the time Smart City Beyond plátanos: An inside guide to the city's latest dining craze, Nuevo Latino Sales & Bargains Working out outside: Bargains on swimming, riding, and climbing
| THE ARTS Movies BY PETER RAINER The low impact of The Hi-Lo Country; Robin Williams flunks his latest doctoral dissertation Television A Frontline documentary takes on hard time for soft crime New Music Philip Glass -- control freak or closet romantic? CUE Intelligencer Classifieds |