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...entitled to it, but disenfranchised from it at the same time. I loved Manhattan in a very traditional Saturday Night Fever type of way. I just wanted to get there. And I did, for high school. I applied to this special arts high school and started taking the subway every day and suddenly Manhattan was mine...
...they were also going to have to operate on another public sphere, and that was the sphere of images,” Molesworth says. “So they made t-shirts and stickers and posters that got pasted all over New York, and billboards, and bus advertisements and subway ads. There was a moment in New York when you just couldn’t be outside and not be experiencing some of the visual material coming...
...deliciously ironic. One would think that the same publication that prides itself on gossip—especially celebrity gossip—would be proud of The Voice, not incensed. After all, it was The Post that sent reporters to stalk the humiliated Ruth Madoff on the Manhattan subway, photographers to capture her at the worst possible moments, and writers to transcribe every last angry word she said as she tried to escape their questions. We find The Post’s implicit condemnation of The Voice’s actions to be as hypocritical as we do amusing...
...Qaeda operation. Nor does Zazi appear to be a lone sympathizer or a copycat egged on by an FBI informant. He apparently had marching orders, accomplices and a quiet determination to deliver a stunning blow. In all these respects, Zazi resembles the al-Qaeda bombers who attacked the London subway in 2005. Indeed, if the charges against him prove true, Zazi was the recruit al-Qaeda had long sought: entirely legal, completely acculturated, seemingly innocuous. In his utter ordinariness, he was a terror master's dream. As such, Zazi suggests that the network of Osama bin Laden, weakened though...
...this city of 7 million - almost as many as in the whole state of California. (Circle K has a third of that number.) An estimated 85% of Hongkongers visit a 7-Eleven every month, according to the company, where they can do everything from withdraw money and replenish their subway passes to pay their electricity bill and send money overseas. (See pictures of Hong Kong...