Word: manhattan
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...fact that I was writing my thesis, and I thought the admissions process would take away from that," Rodriguez says. Although law school has always been a "pretty long term goal" for Rodriguez, she sees spending the next two years working for the federal defender's office in Manhattan as a step toward that goal, rather than in another direction. The California native is eager to assume her place in second-seating court-side with a team of attorneys that handle everything from "boot-leg videotapes to blowing up the World Trade Center...
...Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in Manhattan, Bruzelius trained as a fashion designer...
...Venona traffic would have required a conspiracy involving thousands, working together over many years. Furthermore, the decrypted messages are often verified by other sources. The Soviets and their agents in America thought their coded messages were secure, so they communicated fairly freely--about their penetration of the wartime Manhattan Project, for example. Some leftists still protest the innocence of Julius Rosenberg, but there he is in Venona, as an agent code-named "Liberal." Names long disputed emerge with unambiguous clarity. Harry Dexter White, supposed martyr to HUAC in 1948, is identified as an agent. So is Roosevelt White House aide...
...Manhattan's East Side, Hillary could buy an apartment near the Armory. She could wave to fund raisers as they walked to the polls on Election Day. Or on Central Park West--the liberals, Hollywood celebs and quick escapes by helicopter would give her the life-style she has grown accustomed to." --Barbara Corcoran, the Corcoran Group...
...walks into a bar--a lesbian bar in Manhattan, in fact. Disguised as an unattractive woman--a look, he admits, that is almost effortless for him to achieve--he sets out to see how many attractive women he can pick up. It's an experiment to determine the relative superficiality of gay females vs. straight males, or something like that. The punch line: well, there isn't one, really. Our social scientist is eventually recognized by a patron as Toby Young, a 35-year-old writer for the men's magazine Gear. Young denies being on assignment...