Word: manhattanization
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Could this ethnic rearrangement be a good thing? Yes, says Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a leading affirmative-action critic. Thernstrom argues that minorities suffer when affirmative action puts them on campuses that otherwise wouldn't have admitted them. The dropout rate of black U.C. undergraduate students back in the days of affirmative action was 42%--twice the rate of whites. That stands to reason, Thernstrom says, because blacks and Hispanics were forced to compete against whites and Asians who came to the same schools with higher test scores and grade-point averages. "As students...
Compare Moondoggie to Lovelle Menzie, who just completed his junior year at Morehouse College in Atlanta. As a summer intern at New York City's Chase Manhattan Bank, he plans to fit right into the city that never sleeps. "We've been told that if we are given a project at 10 a.m., it may require that we work straight through for 24 hours until it's done," says Menzie. What's more, he had to fight for those 100-hour workweeks. Wall Street internships are so prized that it's not uncommon for students to steal application materials...
...just the two of them, sitting in the dark. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, by themselves in a small screening room in midtown Manhattan last March, watching Eyes Wide Shut, the film directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring the Cruises, naked, in love...
...standing behind a wall of thick, protective glass. For another, she is not actually visiting the gorillas' home range; rather, they're visiting hers. Just to the west, after all, stands Yankee Stadium. Next to that is a subway station for the IRT line that runs straight into Manhattan...
Five days before the opening move of Kasparov vs. the World, the chess champion sat in a fashionable Manhattan restaurant fighting off symptoms of a nasty head cold. Hunched over a cup of hot lemon juice and pinching his throat in pain, Garry Kasparov didn't look quite ready to rumble with the rest of the human race. Was this the world team's last, best hope at victory? Don't count on it. "There will," Kasparov says firmly, "be no mistakes in this game...