Word: manhattanization
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...officer. Although Pantano's lawyers have advised him not to give interviews about the charges pending against him, he spoke to TIME about his life and career. From these conversations and interviews with friends and family members emerges a portrait of a born fighter who gave up a prosperous Manhattan lifestyle after 9/11 to rejoin his beloved Marine Corps--only to find himself charged as a murderer by his superiors. Pantano has received a remarkable outpouring of support. Officers and sergeants have written statements on his behalf. High school classmates from New York's élite Horace Mann School...
...graduating, he went straight to boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. He fought in Desert Storm, made sergeant in three years, and left as a scout sniper with a bunch of medals. But in 1993 he left the Marines and returned to Manhattan. He took night classes at New York University and worked by day as an energy trader for Goldman Sachs. After earning a degree in economics, he co-founded Filter Media, a company focusing on interactive TV. He grew long hair and wore flamboyant clothes. In 1999 he met a former model who had worked with the photographer...
Hometown: Manhattan Beach...
...Harvard outsiders were still in consideration. Condoleezza Rice, the former Stanford provost who was then helping George W. Bush to secure his presidency; Richard D. Klausner, then the director of the National Cancer Institute; and Nobel laureate Harold E. Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan all made...
...Brian Stokes Mitchell hasn?t got this message. The Broadway leading man is making his cabaret debut at Feinstein?s at the Regency (a night club in one of Manhattan?s swanker hotels), and, the poor sap, he wants to please us. His show, a three-week tribute to Valentine's Day emotions, is called ?Love / Life? - which, unless you take the / as a slash (?Love Slashes Life?), couldn?t be sunnier. His advice is to ?Live and laugh and dream.? His mission, he tells the audience, is to send us out ?feeling a little bit better than when...