Word: grahamism
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...wrong are at first endearing, his unyielding desire for justice soon alienates his wife, children, friends, and, eventually, his audience. The performances of the supporting characters do little to distract the audience from Kearns’ more irritating qualities. “Gilmore Girls” actress Lauren Graham plays Kearns’s wife, and while her character is sympathetic, she is sidelined so quickly that Graham has little time to develop her personality. The film’s style, which could have served to elevate its subject matter, only deadens it. Just as Kinnear portrays a very ordinary...
...Graham, Lindsay •Obama's debate victory is exhaustedly conceded...
...Commerce and then with TIME. In 1955 he was hired by Newsweek, then TIME's distant competitor, and rose rapidly up the editing ranks. In 1960 he worked with his friend Ben Bradlee - then Newsweek's Washington bureau chief, later the editor of the Washington Post - to persuade the Graham family, which owned the Post, to buy the newsmagazine. Oz became Newsweek's editor...
...course, lucky in his owners. The Graham family, led after the death of her husband Philip in 1963 by Katharine Graham, were the best possible stewards of great journalism, and Kay and Oz took around the world the message that terrific reporting and writing mattered. (Any who heard it can recite by heart the story of the two of them meeting Emperor Hirohito of Japan.) But there was more to Oz than the inky-fingered trade. In 1976, after holding a variety of titles at the top of the masthead, he left journalism, becoming the founding chairman of the Citizens...
...computer - a task even his good friend Bill Gates couldn't pull off. There was Carol Loomis, the writer at Fortune (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Inc.), who edited Buffett's annual letter to shareholders. And, most vividly depicted of all, there was Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post, in which Buffett was a major investor. Graham became Buffett's entrée into high society (the man of notoriously simple tastes once said he had an easier time talking to Dolly Parton than to Princess Di), and Buffett became Graham's tutor in the ways...