Word: view
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Cory Booker lives in a penthouse apartment with a picture-postcard view of the Manhattan skyline. It's just what you would expect from a 31-year-old Stanford graduate, Rhodes scholar and Yale-trained lawyer who wears tweed pants. Except that when Booker goes home, he waits at least 10 minutes for the elevator. And when it comes, he crowds on with ex-cons, tiny children and old ladies, all of whom know his name. A uniformed guard pushes the buttons...
...this block--which features a view of New York's World Trade Center, as well as an open-air drug market--the motor home looks like a carnival curiosity. Women walking with their children look quizzically at the vehicle and ask if there's a book giveaway. They have trouble believing that Booker is a city councilman. "Does he know what neighborhood he's in?" asks Maryann DiCostonzi, 39, who grew up here...
...these views wildly miss the mark because no one view can begin to comprehend so large a man. In everything--talent, imagination, writing, indeed, curiosity--Jefferson was prodigious, Continental and, hence, supremely American...
...include magazine editors in this endangered group, another sign that she will go far at TIME.) Her colleague Daniel Eisenberg imagines the office of the future, which (with any luck) will feature chairs that give back rubs and walls of flat-screen monitors that will afford you a virtual view of the Matterhorn from downtown Toledo. Now if only we could predict the office gossip...
Poor George Stephanopoulos is surrounded by vaginas. This April morning, four of The View's co-hosts are grilling the squirming ex-politico and ABC commentator about Donna Hanover, New York City's first lady, and her decision--later rescinded--to appear in the play The Vagina Monologues. Clearly they're enjoying his palpable male discomfort with the repetitions of the V word. "I got in trouble on Good Morning America this morning for saying that word," he pleads. "There's four of them right here!" shoots back Star Jones, as the audience--almost all female--goes nuts...