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...According to the New Yorker magazine, John Ellis (son of President Bush's sister Nancy) was responsible for calling states for either candidate as soon as the numbers were made available, and was therefore responsible for calling the election when it appeared Bush had won Florida - all part of his job description. Well outside that job description, however, lie Ellis's other election night activities: He apparently spent the evening in constant phone contact with Florida governor Jeb Bush and George W. Bush, transmitting updated exit poll numbers and projections down to Austin...
...more likely than men to be single in old age. That's partly because they have a longer life expectancy and tend to marry men older than themselves. Indeed, among people 85 and older, women outnumber men 5 to 2. For Anne Anderson, 72, a single, childless New Yorker, friends fill in for the family she lacks. "Friends help you through the bad times and make good times better," she says...
Among Middelhoff's new acquaintances was Samuel ("Si") Newhouse, chairman of Advance Publications, which publishes, among other magazines, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. A week after attending Si's birthday party, Middelhoff bought Advance's Random House book business for $1.4 billion...
...blood tests to check for signs of liver trouble. Most people on the pills report no complaints; those who do commonly list fatigue as the major side effect. Others refer to the peace of mind statins give them. "I feel safer," says Janet Brown, a 57-year-old New Yorker, who has watched her LDL drop from 177 mg/dl to 90 mg/dl. "I'm not walking on life's tightrope when it comes to my cholesterol...
...never considers The New Yorker a place to read about popular music, but last week's issue had a good article by Nick Hornby (of High Fidelity and About a Boy fame and possibly one of the best writers on popular culture) on that very question, and why people will universally learn to adore it because of who Radiohead are. Check...