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Mnookin, a former Crimson executive, researched the book during his stay at Harvard as a 2004 Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. A former media writer for Newsweek who now lives in Manhattan, Mnookin said that living at Harvard made the writing process much easier for him, since he felt removed from the distractions of New York City...
...poking fun at support-group therapists on Saturday Night Live. Instead, Franken, 53, has become one of the most involved political comedians in history. Back when Kerry looked as if he was going to lose the nomination to Howard Dean, Franken not only organized a buffet lunch in his Manhattan apartment for the Senator to meet New York's media �lite but also grappled with a heckling Dean supporter at a Kerry rally in New Hampshire. His right-ripping book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them was No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list...
Professor Davis used this approach to explore the idea of spatial politics in his talk entitled “Real Estate and Artistic Identity in Late 19th-Century New York.” He focused on the search for a new home in Manhattan, and used the debate between members (uptown vs. downtown, sponsors vs. independence, galleries vs. school rooms, a highly unpopular proposal in Central Park) as a symbol of the rocky transformation of art’s role into something with high social cachet...
...plays off NBC’s hit show “The Apprentice,” in which contestants attempt to become the head of one of real-estate billionaire Donald Trump’s companies. While competitors on Trump’s show organize golf tournaments and sell Manhattan penthouses, participants on the FOX show panhandle on the street and engage in paintball fights...
...know the car you are driving is something special when the parking valet compliments you on it. After all, this guy sees and drives everything. So even though the Manhattan garage where I parked for an hour last Thursday afternoon was packed with Lexuses, BMWs and other luxury vehicles, I knew the attendant was right on when he commented that the $30,000 Ford Escape Hybrid I was driving was a "nice...