Word: manhattanization
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Thomas Middelhoff liked the Post House because the clubby Manhattan restaurant seemed just the place in which to persuade Shawn Fanning that the two men had a lot more in common than a lawsuit. It was early September. Middelhoff, 47, chairman of Bertelsmann, the world's third largest media conglomerate, had never met Fanning, 20, whose ingenious file-sharing program, Napster, had created the world's biggest online free-music community--one that was costing Middelhoff and the rest of the music industry many millions of dollars in lost sales. But by the time they tucked into their steaks...
...Turnout is rumored to be high - maybe very high - from California to Manhattan to Florida to Nevada to the Midwest battlegrounds. That's making the Democrats cautiously optimistic, but Republicans insist it's their people, itching for a landslide. We'll know soon enough...
...Later this same hour, Michigan and Pennsylvania fell to Gore, and Tom Brokaw too was subtly taunting Senator Fred Thompson about the Austin party. This party, however, isn't quite over yet. Anybody wants to bring some Cheez-Its by the Time-Life Building in Manhattan, you'd be more than welcome...
...your own person. I love New York from the bottom of my heart." After working on a Hal Hartley movie in the city in 1998 (average listener, try not to hold his art-film pedigree against her), she spent the majority of 1999 living near Riverside Park in Manhattan and discovering the joys of walking by the water, staring at architecture and "mixing with all those different people." For someone who says she writes 80% of her music in her head while ambling about, New York was a godsend. "My writing did change a lot. It became much more specific...
...would agree: our schools need more Marilyn Whirrys. For 35 years, Whirry has inspired high school students to think deeply about great literature and to use its devices in their writing. She is the kind of teacher that students come back to visit decades later in her classroom in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Last May a national educators' group named her its Teacher of the Year. And with the nation's public schools planning to hire 2.5 million new teachers over the next decade, Whirry is excited that each presidential candidate is pushing ways to recruit, train and reward better teachers...