Word: manhattanization
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...YORK--The Harvard Board of Overseers, the University's second highest governing board, met yesterday on the 64th floor of a Rockefeller Center skyscraper in midtown Manhattan to confirm Lawrence H. Summers as the 27th president of the University...
...comfort to her, Sperling is not alone. While conditions in Manhattan may be extreme, many women across the U.S. are finding it increasingly difficult to schedule routine mammograms in anything less than four to eight weeks. Some major imaging centers--notably in New York and Florida--have shut their doors. Others, squeezed by fee structures set by Medicare or managed care, are curtailing services. If you have a suspicious lump or other symptoms, you will usually be seen within a few days, but if you want to spot the smallest tumors--those that give you a 90% or better chance...
...creating such a distant atmosphere is an uncanny skill for a man who grew up on Manhattan's intellectual Upper West Side. The son of a hat manufacturer, whose maternal grandmother fled from revolutionary Russia, Furst found his literary inspiration in France. He became a "pathological Francophile" the day in 1965 when he lay on his back after a picnic in the town square of Grignan and "felt the blood in the earth" of Provence. Paris, where he lived for eight years before moving to Sag Harbor, N.Y., in 1993, remains for him the center of Western civilization, the "consolation...
...meeting at the Rainbow Room, a landmark midtown Manhattan restaurant, the Overseers voted unanimously to recommend Summers as the replacement for current president Neil L. Rudenstine...
...could morph into a neighborhood, Bill Clinton would be Harlem. So when the former President decided to forsake expensive and unseemly midtown-Manhattan office space and set up shop uptown, at 55 West 125th St., in the most famous African-American area in the country, one knew that it was a personal decision, not just a politically clever...