"Obama won the most where the lines were the longest," former state Sen. Dan Gelber (D-Miami Beach) told the Tampa Bay Times, speaking of the 2012 turnout.
"Of course they'll drink champagne in the Kremlin, but not for long," former Putin adviser and political analyst Gleb Pavlovsky, told Foreign Policy magazine ahead of the election about a possible Trump win.
The converted camp is located in a big field, only partly cleared, with small, roughly paved roads winding among the long, low former barracks and a few loftlike, double-height buildings that serve as sound stages.
The 138m-long former warship can be explored inside and out, so divers can meet the ship's budding new crew of gropers, octopus and giant cuttlefish.
To hear it described by one broker, the football-field-long former Navy warehouse off the Brooklyn waterfront inspired awe from all but a few of the prospective buyers invited on a tour of the long-vacant site last month.
The next day the long-maned former prime minister, who dominated the scene from 2001 to 2006, announced his retirement from politics.
So were Kenneth Cole, the fashion designer; Peter Peterson, the Blackstone co-founder; and Jeffrey Vinik, the long-ago former manager of the Fidelity Magellan mutual fund.
Last year Nassau County poured $1.1 million into the renovation of the 11.4-acre preserve, clearing debris and trimming overgrowth from the long-neglected former estate.
— When Representative J. Dennis Hastert, the long-serving former House speaker, announced his retirement last year, both parties saw an opportunity to make a statement from his district here.
WITH 110 units priced from $435,000 to over $1 million, the new condominium development at 371 Madison Street, in the long-dormant former Public School 12, is bound to make an impact on its quiet corner of the Lower East Side when sales start this spring.
