Word: manhattanization
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...measured calculation of the New Yorker's controversies, while unsettling, is not surprising. The bare-breasted photos of English actress Tilda Swinton, run earlier this spring, were perhaps meant to set Manhattan salons abuzz at the magazine's sheer audacity and nerve. The plan misfired. Someone should have made that unfortunate creature cover...
Profet, whose father is a physicist and mother an engineer, grew up in Manhattan Beach, California, and studied political philosophy at Harvard. An early resistance to science, she says, came from her religious upbringing. "I couldn't reconcile religion with science," she recalls. "I didn't like biology. You look at an internal organ, and it's just so unaesthetic. How could God make things so asymmetrical...
...Hollywood movie studio he cannot be a full-fledged member of Hollywood royalty. Analysts can talk about corporate fit and maximizing shareholder assets all they want, but the latest offer for Paramount is importantly about maximizing Barry Diller's stature among a few thousand residents of West L.A. and Manhattan...
Eight hours later, the van made history. It disintegrated into thousands of pieces as the 1,200-lb. bomb it was carrying thundered through the parking garage of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, tearing a 200-ft.-wide crater in the basement of the world's second tallest building. Six people were killed, and more than 1,000 were injured. The worst terrorist attack on American soil sent federal agents scrambling on a global manhunt. One of the suspects, a 33-year-old redhead, was captured in his native Egypt by government agents, brutally tortured until he confessed...
Today Abouhalima and three colleagues sit quietly in Courtroom 318 in downtown Manhattan, six blocks from the Twin Towers, watching intently as their lawyers and the prosecutors joust over the selection of jurors. So prominent is the case that U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy rounded up 5,000 citizens in his effort to assemble an unbiased jury -- 10 times the number called for last year's sensational trial of Mob chieftain John Gotti. Opening arguments in the bombing case are expected to begin next week. The trial will probably take three to four months, all the while under heavy security...