In "Edmond," William H. Macy is perfectly cast as a prim Manhattan businessman who heeds his inner demons and plummets into free fall.

Willie J., a Manhattan businessman, began attending Gamblers Anonymous meetings two years ago, after finding himself $45,000 in the red.

Stuart Scheftel, a Manhattan businessman who was a politically active civic leader, died yesterday in New York Hospital.

An Iowa native and a longtime Manhattan businessman, he was given a diagnosis of AIDS in 1985.

But when America's first art movement, the Hudson River School, took off, a Manhattan businessman named James Boorman Johnston had an idea.

The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan businessman.

"I feel now as if my soul has left me," said Mr. Dawod, a 30-year-old Manhattan businessman.

Her husband, Benjamin Paisner, a Manhattan businessman, died in 1967.

"Sotheby's seems to have all the connections," said Ken J., a Manhattan businessman who asked that his last name not be used.

"The anniversary is a painful, bitter reminder to our entire family," Mr. Slater, a Manhattan businessman, said in an interview.