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Good news for aspiring novelists: Advances for first-time authors have blown sky-high. The catch? If the book doesn’t sell, the fallout can kill your career.

In the age of the supermodels, Christy, Naomi, and Linda had greatness thrust upon them.

The raised voices at many a dinner party in the past few weeks are testament to the fact that every New Yorker has a passionate position on the impending war in Iraq.

Five years ago, MTV’s ratings were flatlining as music videos started to look like a relic of the eighties. Now it’s the envy of every other network, spawning The Osbournes, Jackass, and a score of other offbeat—and wildly popular—offerings. How’d it happen? Call it chaos theory, managed (barely) by two of television’s unlikeliest executives. Man, this could be chaos.

After a career of telling tightly narrated urban fables, Martin Scorsese has let loose the monster epic he's been itching to do for 30 years. Equal parts costume drama, medieval morality play, sweeping romance, and New York creation myth, it feels like the movie he was born to make.

Accused of mistreating her kids -- and suddenly at risk of losing them -- she was too shocked to panic. The charges could have come from only one person: the ex-nanny.

When the people in 11B are shelling out four times as much as those in 10B -- the ones with the weekend estate in Woodstock -- neighborly thoughts go out the window. It doesn't help that rent-protected tenants often get better services than shareholders paying full freight. A new kind of class warfare is breaking out in some of the city's toniest buildings. Alex Williams reports from the front.

Look good? How about feel good? We try the glories of champagne body wraps, hot-chocolate skin treatments, and even sensory deprivation.