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...judiciary routinely shutters. Some are even working for Shargh, a newspaper widely believed to be controlled by former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who is favored to win next week's presidential election. Kambiz Tavana, a voluble reporter in his early 30s, joined me at Cafe Mint in midtown Tehran to make the case for his journey to the Rafsanjani camp. He described the reform era as "a flailing moment, not a movement" and said its legacy was to illustrate the clerical regime's insurmountable power structure. Rafsanjani, Tavana said, is a player within the system and a powerful pragmatist...
...just seems like the wrong site—it’s not that football stadiums are bad,” Krieger says. “Housing, open space, retail services, cultural facilities—these are the things that the west end of Midtown could benefit from, opposed to a big blank box that is used occasionally...
Joking about the trials of starving artistry and making negative money on gigs (if you account for gas), the members of the band have more typical, though perhaps less exciting day jobs. Snyder works for D.E. Shaw and Company in Midtown in New York City and Warren works at the Public Defenders Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn. While Snyder said that Stroll works at a Starbucks, the drummer denied the fact, offering one of his seemingly typical outrageous and obviously false responses that he trains pandas to shoot eucalyptus plants which emit gamma radiation...
...Mostly, men shop for women. For instance, in midtown Manhattan - a place that puts its astonishing variety of female beauty on display for any idle ambler - the streets are our mall. Walking is our browsing. Sometimes the proliferation of pulchritude is so intense, a gent can get swivel-necked from simple appreciation. It's a pastime for any man, including the mild-mannered, happily married and legally faithful; and it isn't an act of male predation. Just the reverse: it's fealty, an acknowledgment that women have a power over men, which can be ignited at the turn...
...three midtown monoliths put forth their best wine tastings and alumni happy hours this month (and the Princeton Club even unveiled a members-only opera series), but the Harvard Club still managed to prove it’s the whitest of all with an unfortunate shout-out to two black employees last week...