Word: closedness
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Among the first and at the time tallest of New York City's signature skyscrapers when it was completed in 1902, the 22-story Flatiron, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue, Broadway and 23rd Street, is instantly recognizable for its triangular shape. Though it was dwarfed 30 years later by...
Even the terminology used to describe the manual move is under dispute. On reporting Obama's speech, The New York Times described it stuffily as a "closed-fisted high-five" while Human Events reader racily suggested it was closer to "Hezbollah-style fist-jabbing," (the comment was later removed from...
CB: We inherited a city that was in financial free fall. A horrible financial disaster. Crime was escalating and there had been really no investments made in the police department in terms of personnel and more feet on the streets. In terms of technology we were in the dark ages...
The move has been hotly contested by Smith’s subordinates in the College Dean’s Office. In closed-door meetings with the boys upstairs, both Hammonds and outgoing Interim Dean David R. Pilbeam have insisted on the decision’s lack of wisdom. Yet all...
At University President Drew G. Faust’s installation, then-Undergraduate Council (UC) President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 boldly proclaimed: “This process of decisions made behind closed doors, this disempowerment of students, this denial of citizenship must end now.” His...