The agenda was clear: Sprint had a new music phone designed by Samsung, and the group was hoping for a positive reception from a man who has become to technology what Brooks Atkinson once was to the New York theatre someone whose judgment can ratify years of effort or sink the show.

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New York (CNN) -- The 25-year-old man who jumped from a monorail car into the Bronx Zoo's tiger den was not drunk or insane, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

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And then a press secretary stepped forward, a man who I'm told came with Geithner from the New York Federal Reserve.

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And in 1906, Dillon, by then an elderly man, also told his tale to a reporter from The New York Times.

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