Word: manhattanization
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...amazing aspects of Lebed's story, or that of any Net fraudster, is that people act on the hype they see online. Large banks like Chase Manhattan pay millions of dollars a year in premiums to insure against a rogue trader like Leeson. Your best protection against a rogue Internet hypster is just not to listen. Most pump-and-dump schemes involve micro-cap stocks. That's your first tip-off. Often they hype them as likely to double or better in weeks. If you have questions, the SEC has a brochure, "Pump&Dump.con," with tips for avoiding scams...
...Conditions previously thought diabolical, such as Tourette's syndrome, proved medically treatable. In the wake of Vatican II, many American Catholics "wanted to restrict things to only a scientific way of knowing" and shied away from the rite's supernatural literalism, says the Rev. Kazimierz Kowalski, an exorcist in Manhattan. Notes the Rev. James LeBar, who took up the work in 1989: "The whole thing kind of went down to embers...
...remember it being this funny" is the constant refrain at the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan, where the 1965 film The Sound of Music is getting The Rocky Horror Picture Show treatment. Viewers are invited to arrive in costume, sing along with every musical number as the film plays and comment out loud about the events on screen ("I'm gay!" shout several people whenever Uncle Max announces he has a surprise for the children). Some younger kids might be frightened by the spectacle of hundreds of New Yorkers, a few in drag, belting out So Long, Farewell...
...show takes place in New York City and its aura certainly pervades the Manhattan social scene like nowhere else. But where do the rest of us fit in? Sure, the Manhattan mystique makes the characters' lives seem more sexy and savvy than those here at Harvard, but the sex in the Square certainly lives...
Charlotte York, played by Kristin Davis, is an art gallery dealer in Manhattan. She always wears her hair perfectly coiffed and she likes her men as elegant and polished as she herself likes to dress. She recently got married in a $14,000 dress--paid for with daddy's credit card--as a born-again virgin...