Word: yorker
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...America. Whether you come from a rural or urban area, a conservative or a liberal enclave, and so on—your culture affects your outlook on life. It’s valuable to meet people with diverse experiences—perhaps even more valuable for the streetwise New Yorker to meet a “backwards” Iowan than to meet a cosmopolitan Londoner...
...divided on the question of whether strong leadership or moral character is the most important quality in a President. Giuliani draws high levels of support among G.O.P. voters who are most concerned about national-security issues, and that describes almost half of Republicans nationally. For those voters, the New Yorker's experience during 9/11 and his foreign policy rhetoric trump any concerns about his character and background...
Sources: New York Times (2); PCWorld; New Yorker; Reuters; Guardian...
...recalling the '60s and '70s, Martin writes revealingly of his sex life (busy) and his drug life (not so much). But the most poignant passages touch on his estrangement from his father and their reconciliation at the elder man's deathbed. "When I published that part in the New Yorker," Martin says, "I got a great letter from a woman. She said, 'I read your article about your father, and I gave it to my husband, and he read it and didn't say anything. And then he said to me, What's our son's phone number...
Kathleen Spivack has been recognized as one of the foremost poets of her generation. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and her work has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker and Harper’s. “Moments of Happiness,” her first poetry collection since 1986’s “The Beds We Lie In,” was released on Nov. 10, exclusively through Cambridge’s Grolier Poetry Book Shop. The Harvard Crimson: This is your first book since 1986—that?...