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Take yesterday’s exposé on John McCain’s political-careerful of indiscretions small and large. The probable Republican nominee for president and historically, McCain apparently didn??t let his self-styled reputation as the Senate’s most adamant ethics watchdog slow him down when Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg offered him a plane ride. The Arizona senator—who is becoming more and more like his constituency with each passing year—was celebrated when he helped birth the Reform Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping corporate money...
...estimable Gray Lady has slipped a bit: she’s sometimes unreliable and sometimes a little weird. We must see, though: it didn??t used to be this way! She was a nice girl! For proof we need only turn to the Times itself, at the start of its original salad days, just before the turn of the century. In an October 1897 article, George P. Rowell explains the paper’s sudden success. Instead of cutting rate, the staff upped the ante with a “strict insistence upon absolutely trustworthy and impartial news...
...high school. I want a piece of this.” So, after some well-placed bribes, I got in. I don’t have the talent to get in, but I do have the bankroll.RR: Why did your high school improv suck so much?AW: It didn??t suck. I don’t want you putting words in my mouth, but IGP is certainly a big step up. Comedy doesn’t come from a bunch of one-liners; it comes from having funny relationships, real relationships. It comes from building a scene that...
...didn??t get to carry a gun, but her work did involve classified information—and she’s still not entirely sure what the consequences of her research really were. “We had two computers under the desk and just one screen,” McCulla says. “There was a little box with a switch on it and hundreds of times a day, we’d push the switch and it’d flip from one computer to the other. We’d have two separate email...
...creative output, so she sent off a dozen letters to chefs whose work she admired. “I was asking for a week of unpaid kitchen experience,” she says. “‘Just let me come!’ I asked. I didn??t care if I washed lettuce...