Word: manhattanization
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...Saturday morning, and Dick Parsons was working out on the exercise equipment in his Manhattan apartment when he got the message. Steve Case, chairman of AOL Time Warner, wanted to talk right away. Parsons, the company's chief executive, finished his regimen, then returned the call. "Are you sitting down?" Case asked. Then he unleashed the news: he was resigning...
...DIED. AL HIRSCHFELD, 99, New York Times caricaturist whose flowing black-and-white sketches wittily captured Broadway personalities, world leaders and political figures during a career that spanned more than 70 years; in New York City. Hirschfeld's work is on permanent display in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. He was awarded two Tony awards and was to be honored with the National Medal of Arts...
...building "supportive housing" projects with attached mental-health services; there are now more than 60,000 such units across the country, funded by a combination of government and private organizations. While the buildings are not licensed like mental hospitals, nurses, social workers and psychologists keep office hours. In midtown Manhattan's Prince George Hotel, which has a ballroom, a restored lobby and salon, former street dwellers bake cookies, use the computer lab and take Pilates and yoga classes. Director Nancy Porcaro says the surroundings give the homeless enough help and pride to better themselves. "People do rise to the occasion...
...Sony Music, Tommy Mottola had some relationships sour in very public ways. After launching the career of Mariah Carey, he married her; after a bitter divorce, she left the label. And when Michael Jackson decided that the label hadn't publicized his album enough, he drove a bus around Manhattan holding a poster of Mottola with horns. Now Mottola is facing another breakup. He announced last week that he wanted to start his own label and was leaving Sony, where since 1989 he has guided singers like Jennifer Lopez. Whether he jumped or was pushed remains unclear. Sony is suffering...
...years ago, at age 14, wanted so badly to become a late-night talk-show host that he did. Right then. In his parents' living room. Essany got a slot on local-cable-access television, persuaded Mom to run the camera, put a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline behind his desk and over the next six years managed to book actual celebrities, including Jeff Foxworthy and Carrot Top. Well, all right, they're actual celebrities compared with any you could book into your living room. It's both inspirational and creepy. Essany's dedication is amazing, but what...