Word: yorkerism
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...about the King tragedy I was reminded of Robert Kolker's fascinating New York magazine piece last fall about the case of Anthony Fortunato, who was sentenced to seven to 21 years in prison for his role in the death of Michael Sandy, a 29-year-old gay New Yorker. Fortunato and three friends lured Sandy from a gay chatroom to their neighborhood with the promise of sex. Instead they wanted to rob him, and they beat him up and chased him onto a parkway where...
...demeanor belies his accomplished resume: an editor of the Harvard Law Review, an associate counsel on the Oliver North/Iran-Contra trial, and a former Assistant U.S. Attorney—all by age 32.At that point, in 1993, Toobin left the practice of law to cover legal affairs for The New Yorker, and a year later, he shot to notoriety when he revealed the O.J. Simpson defense team’s plan to play “the race card.” He joined ABC News as its senior legal commentator in 1996, and moved to CNN in 2002. His second...
...grabbed support from party moderates and seized on his support from the onetime favorite, New Yorker Rudy Giuliani...
...Giuliani collapse wasn't totally unexpected?a twice-divorced, pro-choice, anti-gun New Yorker was a tough sell in a Republican primary?the cause certainly was. Who would have expected the mayor who declared war on criminals, squeegee men, graffiti artists, jaywalkers and even purveyors of "incivility"?in other words, New Yorkers?to shy away from a fight...
...Rudy has certainly confounded expectations, plummeting from front-runner to also-ran in just a few weeks. And if the plunge wasn't totally unexpected - a twice-divorced, pro-choice, anti-gun, pro-gay-rights New Yorker had to be a tough sell in a Republican primary - the cause certainly was. Who would have thought the man who declared war on New York's criminals, squeegee men, street vendors, taxi drivers, graffiti artists, jaywalkers and even purveyors of "incivility" - in other words, New Yorkers - was going to shy away from a fight...