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Lucky Jenny Jenny Thousands of men flock to Hot Import Nights, a traveling car show with suped-up vehicles. Some of them prefer Jenny to the cars. As a model, Jenny attends car shows where she signs autographs at booths. Since she is too short to do runway modeling, her goal is to end up in a national publication. But for now, the Forest Hills resident promotes herself with a website she created. This luscious beauty even has a yahoo fan club site. Yet Jenny is more interested in finance than modeling. She is a junior at Baruch and hopes to graduate early. She also works at Morgan Stanley as an assistant to a senior vice president in the retail stocks division where she helps run the day-to-day operations and keeps the clients happy. Morgan Stanley was located on the 73rd floor of the second tower at the World Trade Center and Jenny is among the lucky ones. On the worst day of the Citys history, Jenny was late to work and got stuck on the R train. When she got out on 8th Street, "It was weird, I watched everyone come uptown." She soon found out that the towers were on fire. "Thankfully everyone in my firm is okay," says Jenny. "Life is precious, anything can happen." Thats why she tries not to procrastinate. To most people that know her, she is quiet and shy. "Friends come to me with advice because they know I can keep a secret," says Jenny. Boyfriends either take up too much or are too possessive for Jenny. "Its so much easier hanging out with a bunch of friends," she says. At least once a week, she tries making it out to a pool hall in Queens, either BBC in Bayside or Millennium on Francis Lewis, where she hangs out with friends. Not surprisingly she looks up to Jeannette Lee, a.k.a. the Black Widow- a young Asian, world pool player. She also catches action and romantic flicks at Bay Terrace. Jenny came from Taiwan ten years ago. She attended Russell Sage Junior High School and Cardozo High School in Bayside. Dissident DiesExiled Chinese dissident Wang Ruowang, a writer who was once jailed by Chinas communist government, died quietly at Elmhurst Hospital last week. He was 83. According to an Associated Press story, "Wang remained defiant to the end, refusing an offer from China a week before his death to let him back into the country a wish Wang had held since he left Shanghai in 1992 to become a visiting scholar at New Yorks Columbia University." Ruowang was expelled from the Communist Party in Jan.1987 during what has been called an "anti-bourgeois liberalization" campaign in China. Liu Qing, another Chinese dissident living in Queens, told the AP that Wang was diagnosed two weeks ago with terminal cancer. He called Wang "the oldest, most prestigious and most stubborn democracy activist. He used his life to pursue human rights and democracy in China."
Many Fire Dept. Officers in the metropolitan area have received their copy of the NYS Chem-Bio Handbook. But I May Break A Nail... After years of putting brawn first, one-time heavyweight boxing title contender Gerry Cooney now seems to be focusing on beauty. After a recent visit to the office of Flushing Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin, during which Cooney requested money for his organization Fighters Initiative for Support and Training (FIST), Cooney and FIST President Joseph Sano took a walk to Momo Nails on Depot Road and got manicures.
Thats right, tough Gerry Cooney got a manicure. This is a man who went 28-3 in his boxing career with 24 KOs. This is a man who fought Larry Holmes in 1982 for the World Heavyweight Boxing Title. Sure, he lost, but he put up a good fight. Although both Cooney and his friend Sano were unavailable for comment, an employee of Momo Nails explained that the two men got basic manicures, including cleaning, cutting and cuticle work. "No painting," she said with a laugh. She also told QConf that men get manicures all the time at Momo, and that its not so strange that Cooney got one. "They want to look nice, too," she said. An autographed picture of Cooney now hangs in Momo, making him the poster boy of male manicures in Queens. He retired from the ring in 1990. Sound Bites BIN LADEN BOMB: A tugboat operator from Far Rock sent a nice holiday gift to Osama Bin Laden to help him remember eight close friends who died in the attack. Bin Laden received a personalized bomb from Simon Young of Far Rockaway. The names of six alumni from Xavier High School and two rugby buddies were imprinted on the bomb. It was signed by Xavier Alumni and NY Athletic-Rugby Football Club. Young got to personalize the bomb through a contact onboard the carrier Roosevelt stationed in the Indian Ocean. A bomber from the ship personally delivered the gift to Afghanistan. VH1: P.S. 220 Teacher Thomas DiPietra is negotiating with VH1 television for them to broadcast the Jamaica teachers song United We Stand, QConf has learned.The song has been released on CD by the NYC Board of Education and is made up of poetry compiled by the Queens School District 28 students, composed and performed by five teachers at different schools throughout the district. From Liverpool With Love: The Merseyside Fire Service Running Club in Liverpool, England wanted to do something for their fire truck comrades in New York and so they set their feet to running. The merry old chaps held a Remembrance Run and collected over $7,000 which they pledged for and delivered to the Howard Beach Engine Co. 331, for Engine Co. 285.
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