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...reporter, Reston's grasp of global gamesmanship led him to the New York Times. His first job: correspondent during the London blitz. He went on to win a Pulitzer chronicling the birth of the U.N. and, in 1953, became the paper's Washington bureau chief. As a thrice-weekly columnist, he gained fame for his deft prose, solid reporting and enviable access, but the latter often came at a price. In 1961, at President John F. Kennedy's request, he withheld what he knew of plans involving an obscure Cuban inlet called the Bay of Pigs. Reston later helped nurture...
...Harvard's French Department is not highly regarded, because it is viewed as a hotbed of modish feminist criticism," Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam wrote in a February op-ed piece...
...Browns from Cleveland to Baltimore? How else do you explain the blood on the hands of the Baltimoreans who are giving Modell a $200 million stadium in order to replace the Colts, who were spirited away 11 years ago in moving vans bound for Indianapolis? "Baltimore Browns?" wrote columnist Michael Olesker of the Baltimore Sun. "Come on, call 'em The Revenge and make those lowlifes...read the name in the newspapers the rest of their miserable lives and be reminded of what they've brought to a business that once claimed to have some honor...
MICHAEL LEWIS, THE FINANCIAL COLUMNIST FOR THE NEW YORK Times Magazine, has figured out that by tweaking the rich, eventually you can become one of them. He tweaked the bond traders in his bestseller, Liar's Poker, and profited like a bond trader from the book sales. In his latest column he tweaks Steve Forbes, the presidential candidate who owns Forbes magazine, for "leading the charge to eliminate capital-gains taxes...
About 75 people paid $135 each to hear the thoughts of Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould, Radcliffe Public Policy Fellow Wendy Kaminer, Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson and Esquire columnist Mark Leyner as they discussed their picks in the hotel's Seasons restaurant...