Word: yorker
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...that he meant what he said: "For the first time in its history," she writes, "the United States sanctioned government officials to physically and psychologically torment U.S.-held captives, making torture the official law of the land in all but name." The author, an investigative reporter for the New Yorker, meticulously demonstrates that the Administration, fully aware that as many as a third of the detainees in Guantánamo may have had no connection to terrorism, still proceeded with medieval treatment that the Red Cross warned was "categorically" torture. Mayer's work (nearly 400 pages of sometimes graphic detail...
...even as golden arches and Slurpees pervade every corner of Seoul, this city remains distinctly Korean—starting with its people. To a New Yorker coming to Korea by way of Harvard, human interaction in Seoul takes place on a whole different level. Courtesy among strangers is expected, rather than pleasantly surprising. In the haggle-only markets, transactions manage to take place with an air of cordiality, and more than once I’ve walked away from getting ripped off for a shirt or pair of sunglasses with a smile on my face. In the still significant number...
What do you think of the tabloids? I talk about Tabloid Hell in the novel ... Basically, I read the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker ... One doesn't have an unlimited amount of time for reading everything...
...admission. But the usual suspects—professors, proximity to home, housing policies, advising, student life—were not the source of the few doubts I did harbor about coming to Harvard. It was the Boston Red Sox that were keeping me up at night.Could I, native New Yorker, a lifelong Yankees devotee, and bona fide Jetermaniac stand to reside in the heart of Red Sox Nation for the next four years of my life? Would I ever feel welcome in a place where the interlocking N-Y was off-limits? And what of Jeter? What about Jeter? This...
...April 1964, Sheehan returned to the United States after being hired by The Times. It was at this time that he met his future wife Susan Margulies, a staff writer for The New Yorker who would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize for her book “Is There No Place On Earth...