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With Speed (and Money) to Burn

For only $39,800 anyone can be there and here for next year's snazziest millennium bashes

By Sean Rowe
Dec 31, 1998

Ronald L. Pevsner plans to be fast asleep on New Year's Eve when 1998 is put to rest. He figures he'll be worn out preparing for a much more resounding occasion: December 31, 1999 -- the approach of the new millennium. On that date, 365 days hence, Pevsner intends to...
The Life We're Handed

Alex Pittock didn't ask for a forklift to practically amputate his hand, he didn't ask for the money he got in a settlement, and he certainly didn't ask for his family to fall apart around him

By Sean Rowe
Dec 17, 1998

The boy stands in his father's kitchen, dark eyes flashing, arguing his case for a red motorcycle. Not far from where the youth stands, a neighbor in this middle-class suburb is throwing a garage sale like no other seen in Coral Springs. Among the household pickings: the red motorcycle, offered...
A Fine Mess

Why does handyman Timothy Williams owe more than $34,000 in fines? Because he broke the rules in Dania Beach.

By Sean Rowe
Dec 3, 1998

Attorney Donald Kahn had spent a lifetime preparing for this moment. University of Miami law school. Advanced degrees in taxation and real estate. Ascension to partner at the slightly stuffy firm of Green, Kahn, Piotrkowski in Miami Beach. On November 10 the lawyer shined his wingtips, donned a blue Austin...
Invasion of the Cheap Seats

Ever since advertisers began plastering their names on bus benches, Broward County has been overrun by unwanted places to sit

By Sean Rowe
Nov 19, 1998

One morning in 1944, Carl Mayhue crossed the Las Olas bridge and gave birth to what may have been the nation's first commercial bus bench. "I saw these old people standing around in the sun waiting for the bus," Mayhue recalls. "So I went back to my buddies at the...
Chasing Danny

Is Dan Marino a stoic swaddled in hype or an autistic sports celebrity with the personality of an egg timer? Both.

By Sean Rowe
Nov 12, 1998

Dan Marino, perhaps the greatest quarterback in the history of pro football, slumps on a bench in front of a locker ripping wads of tape off his legs. The Dolphins have just lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars in a road game 500 miles north of Miami. Marino himself has been...

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