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...things Yankee suddenly inflame the passions of Red Sox fans, even more so their phony hangers-on. According to even the most enlightened of these backers of perpetual losers, all supporters of New York??s American League squad are front runners who by definition must have supported the Mets a decade ago. And, no, they will not discuss any claims to the contrary. By the way, the Yankees suck...
...YORK??As I watched P. Diddy strut on stage, Rage Against the Machine blaring in the background, I couldn’t get past a cynical dose of skepticism. In a heavily air-conditioned auditorium at New York University, the rapper-turned-record-producer-turned-social-activist pontificated behind a podium on his latest public relations offensive, “Citizen Change.” Think MTV’s Rock the Vote, but more bling-bling. Instead of selling albums, the inventor of the remix was now pitching his program to sell voting to our notoriously apathetic...
...YORK??Years of usage and co-option have made the “F” word the most demonized in the English language. But I like to use it freely. Despite its bad rep, the “F” word has cultural cachet; it’s exhilaratingly anti-establishment and associates me with other “F” word-users across the world...
...realized that I had no hope of blending in. Quickly, it became clear to me that the street where the Great White Men—George Washington and Alexander Hamilton—were inaugurated and buried, respectively, was still the domain of white men of questionable greatness. In New York??s financial district, I was a woman in a place run by men and for men: the cigar-smoking, Wall Street Journal-toting men who think green and carry themselves with a self-importance that makes the Harvard man look, well, modest...
...YORK??I spent a week as a society reporter for The New York Sun, where I’m interning this summer. My dishy diary follows...