Word: posh
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...revitalized big apartment complexes like Battery Park City and pushed developers to convert old office buildings in the financial district into apartments, a trend already under way before 9/11. More than 36,000 people now live in lower Manhattan, up 58% from 2000. Those young, affluent newcomers have attracted posh new stores like Sephora and Hermès and new restaurants like Bobby Van's Steakhouse, lighting up streets that once went dark...
...immigration-hostile, anti-European platform has traditionally attracted the more affluent, genteel brand of reactionary - matching de Villiers' own snobbish aristocratic background. The scion of a posh family whose blueblood ancestors once lorded over parts of his native Vend?e region in western France, the chateau-owning de Villiers initially attracted more pragmatic royalists and upper-class rightists than he did hardened reactionies. Long unwilling to taint himself with the snarling language and mean-spirited policies favored by the National Front, de Villiers has often been belittled as "Le Pen Lite." He's clearly looking to change that - and not just...
...editor, Big City magazine To get a feel for this city of glamour and totalitarianism, start with the Bosko Café facing Lenin's Tomb across Red Square, which may well have the best olives in Europe, and order a cappuccino. Walk out into Nikolskaya Street, and turn into posh Tretyakovsky Proezd Street, where Bentleys sell like hotcakes opposite the FSB (former KGB) headquarters. Walk up Petrovka Street and turn left to Pushkin Square, Moscow's real heart. Go to the Pushkin, the best Russian restaurant in town, pictured. Trust your waiter's taste-and order your vodka straight away...
...setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder across Red Square, which may well have the best olives in Europe, and order a cappuccino. Walk out into Nikolskaya Street, and turn into posh Tretyakovsky Proezd Street, where Bentleys sell like hotcakes opposite the FSB (former KGB) headquarters. Walk up Petrovka Street and turn left to Pushkin Square, Moscow's real heart. Go to the Pushkin, the best Russian restaurant in town, pictured. Trust your waiter's taste - and order your vodka straight away...
...Just outside the posh Hyatt hotel, Achyut Adhikari, a student, was gathered with a few hundred others after the rains in defiance of the curfew: when word spread that the police were firing rubber bullets - and that they have been firing at crowds throughout the city - Adhikari and the others turned and ran, tearing through bushes and gardens, jumping over walls, to make it to safety. "Of course I'll be back tomorrow," Adhikari said, at the end of it all, panting for breath. "What else is there to do? We'll keep coming until the King gives...