Word: yorkerism
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...students and Harvard is, alas, no exception, instead they chose to propagate the idea that the student didn't appear to have any troubles and the tragedy had, therefore, no explanation," Thernstrom says in the book, which is an expansion of an earlier article she published in the New Yorker last June...
...this keeps up they're going to have to take away my New Yorker license. Not my New York license, mind you--as a New Yorker, I don't drive--but my license to reply to the question "where are you from?" with a confidently swaggering "New York...
...cares where they are?" you might say to a New Yorker. "They're gone. And the stock market is red hot, and the crime rate is negligible, and Disney is making Times Square the wholesome family-gathering spot we always knew it was underneath all that pornography and drug paraphernalia. New York City has entered a glorious new era." At which point the New Yorker might ask what you think of the theory that New York City has given a grant to some down-on-its-luck former mill town to take in squeegee guys rather than become the site...
...talk of a trial date is a clear sign that the ground is shifting beneath the Jones camp. The tremors began two weeks ago with another high-profile piece of reporting by Stuart Taylor in Legal Times. Taylor's story, and a follow-up article by the New Yorker's Jane Mayer, attacks Jones' credibility by suggesting that her account of what happened when she visited Governor Clinton's hotel suite in 1991 has grown more lurid over time...
...American Spectator's January 1994 "Troopergate" piece, who were operating under the tutelage of a Clinton hater named Cliff Jackson, hoped the expose--which they began working on soon after Clinton won the presidential nomination--would lead to a $2.5 million book advance. (According to the New Yorker, Jackson and a trooper, Danny Ferguson, parted company after Ferguson refused to let his name be used because Jackson wouldn't promise him $1 million.) The sources' motives and veracity have been called into question by Trooper Ronald Anderson, who says he was brought in to lend credibility to the proposed book...