Word: manhattanization
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...Eventually, he settled in India, where he lived for over a decade. On vacation to the United States, he attended a benefit at a Manhattan hotel, where he met Gutmann's mother. Weeks later, they were married. They settled in Monroe, N.Y., a small town about an hour north of New York City...
...next night, five hours and a world away, the team was in Manhattan taking on the perennially challenging Columbia Lions (8-11, 3-3). Light Blue forward Craig Austin torched the Crimson for 25 points, but his team also blew a 22-point lead to the Crimson, who pulled within five but ultimately fell...
...Size and verisimilitude are the key factors in such games, and "Midnight Club" has both. Though it has only two maps, of Manhattan and London, both are extremely large and reasonably accurate. They include most of the major and some minor landmarks, and have the important avenues and streets in the right place...
...administration. John J. DiIulio, a public policy scholar - and also, incidentally, a Democrat -was tapped earlier this week to run the administration's office of faith-based programs. Almost all of the articles and TV reports written about DiIulio, who has a perch at both the conservative Manhattan Institute and centrist Brookings Institution, have failed to mention his opposition to the death penalty - something that Bush has applied far more frequently than any politician in recent decades...
...quotidian scene occupies roughly the first one-fifth of Don DeLillo's The Body Artist (Scribner; 128 pages; $22) and is followed abruptly by an obituary: Rey Robles, 64, a Spanish-born film director prominent for a time in the late 1970s, has shot and killed himself in the Manhattan apartment of his first wife. After a brief account of Robles' life and career and a reference to his later problems with alcoholism and depression, the article concludes, "He is survived by his third wife, Lauren Hartke, the body artist...