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...Daedalus after the couple finished dining there two weeks ago. Noyer had received a “spotted” text, and rushed over to the scene. After a meal occupied more by oogling than chewing, he left the restaurant not with a hand-penned autograph, but with some first-hand celebrity DNA. Upon chatting with the waitress and discovering that Justin’s wine glass had already been claimed (his overtures for Justin’s fork were for naught, as Timberlake was eating a sandwich), Noyer recalls, “I said something like...
...contrast, should historians of the future ignore such brilliant works of reportage as Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower or Dexter Filkins’ masterful account of his period in Iraq—The Forever War? Indeed, I have seen first-hand how rigorously Mr. Wright, a personal friend and distinguished journalist, pursues the finest, epiphanal details that are so often ignored by professional historians. The 60 pages of footnotes and list of more than 500 individuals he interviewed for his “journalistic” work would do any historian proud...
...nuclear activities should unite the international community in efforts to counter Iran's dangerous ambitions," said McCain. These comments come as Obama continues to plan an overseas trip, meant both to burnish his foreign policy credentials and disable some McCain's criticism that he hasn't had a first-hand assessment of the conditions on the ground in America's theaters...
...move - appear effortless. In fact, Tim was the pioneer of a new generation of television journalists who got their start in politics. He was the first who crossed to the other side, but he was soon followed by Chris Matthews (who studied at the knee of the great Tip O'Neil) and George Stephanopoulos, who famously toiled for Bill Clinton. All three of them brought something new to American living rooms - an intimate, first-hand understanding of the compromises and agonies of governing and campaigning. All three of them knew what it was like to be in the room when...
...triumph.But that does not mean that every follower of the good guys has been so quick to hide their pinstriped heart. Fellow Yankees fan Kendall A. Kulper ’08 said she counted some dirty looks while touring Fenway Park in a Jeter jersey as the most unpleasant first-hand interaction with citizens of Red Sox Nation. Then again, even Kulper didn’t press her luck when she took in her first live game at Fenway last season. “I couldn’t find my Jeter shirt,” she recalled...