Word: manhattanize
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...Open Conversation Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists, all engaged in a sprawling six-hour conversation about the future of schools. Twenty years ago, the ideas exchanged in that conversation would have been confined to the minds of the participants. Ten years ago, a transcript might have been published weeks or months later on the Web. Five years ago, a handful of participants might have blogged about their experiences after the fact...
...Harvard in September 2003. After having nearly finished a five-year music program, he was preparing to graduate in January. Second to his considerate nature, Antoine’s friends and peers recalled his passion for music. According to Antoine’s ex-girlfriend, he studied at the Manhattan School of Music before college. During his year-long leave of absence in 2006-2007, he worked as a steward at the Boston Opera House, where he watched music performances for free. Antoine could always find time to talk about his plans for the College’s music department...
...area code. Even though the past year has bruised New York City, the number rang with promise. A person in a New York office building was calling me. The digits ended in a round number. Probably a very big office building. An important person who worked in a big Manhattan office building wanted to talk. This person could see great stretches of earth and sky from where he sat, and surveying all that landscape, had wisely decided to call me. The assembled members of the Adams family, their portraits hanging on the room’s walls, looked on approvingly...
...course, The Globe is in an expert position to judge failure these days. But you’ll find no schadenfreude here, since, as the voice from the Manhattan newsroom reminded me, their failures lead...
...September seven years before, this one is said to have changed everything. That snapping sensation was almost certainly louder for ears tuned to a specific frequency—those of a graduating senior alert to any sounds of change. I was hearing it again in a phone call from Manhattan...