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...he’s a true Cantabrigian at heart—a dyed-in-the-wool liberal and a lover of all things urban...
...looking for the novelist Joseph Finder in a tony Manhattan restaurant, ignore the artsy-looking, bearded fellow slouching in the corner and search instead for the man in full executive armor: tailored wool blazer, black Armani tie and blue Joseph Abboud shirt. Finder, 47, uses that camouflage to slip in and out of the corporate environment, where he researches gripping thrillers set among the world of executive suites and water coolers. "Joseph Finder is doing for the business thriller what John le Carr did for the spy thriller," says Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, "moving it from...
...halls of the high school smell of perfume and bodily exhalations, of chewing gum and impure cafeteria food, and of cloth -cotton and wool and the synthetic materials of running shoes, warmed by young flesh. Between classes there is a thunder of movement; the noise is stretched thin over a violence beneath, barely restrained. Sometimes in the lull at the end of the school day, when the triumphant, jeering racket of departure has subsided and only the students doing extracurricular activities remain in the great building, Joryleen Grant comes up to Ahmad at his locker. He does track...
...thickness with his hand before shaking his head depreciatingly.“It’s not enough. You’re not wearing enough,” he says seriously. “I have seven layers on right now.” Then he puts on a wool hat, hops on the bike next to me, and begins what, to him, has become normal—practiced, studied, and perfected to the final minute before weigh-in. Each of them knows where they stand on Wednesday morning, on Thursday after practice, and again on Friday morning. The method...
...with a bit of maneuvering and a lot of carefully couched phrases, Bush pulled wool over the eyes of most of America. The punchline came in 2004. At election time, long after the country club set should have noticed that their boy George had turned on them, the upper middle class turned out in huge numbers to give Georgie a second term. Their time and money built Bush’s campaign, and their votes sealed the deal. How’s that for irony...