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August is when the politicians and journalists in Washington make a deal to leave town and take the news with them. Congressmen go on recess and head back to their home districts; the White House usually follows suit. And the big-time journalists and pundits that dutifully fill newspapers, magazines...
"In August, the news goes on vacation like everybody else," says New York magazine media critic Michael Wolff. "Washington especially, which accounts for most official news and probably half of all national news, is possibly the hottest place on earth in the summer, and anyone who is capable of making...
Back to Wednesday for a moment: The White House?s private accounting firm, otherwise known as the Office of Management and Budget, releases its budget numbers, which are expected to confirm the hair?s-breadth $1 billion non-Social-Security surplus that the OMB?s number-crunchers salvaged with some...
Price, now 31, had won a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to spend a year learning how to make gondolas. The problem was that he couldn't find anyone to teach him. Part of it was his own fault: he arrived in Venice in July, just before the locals take off...
That attention to quality has not faltered as his children and grandchildren join Berthillon in running the business, though their dedication to tradition does have some drawbacks. Despite its continued popularity, Berthillon still closes for most of France's July-through-August vacation season.