Word: yorkerism
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...House advanced him $2.5 million to write a book about the Clinton White House, but Morris forgot to tell the President about the contract; thus in effect he was paid to eavesdrop on the Oval Office, not unlike Richard Nixon. He was rewarded with a breakfast at the New Yorker magazine, where journalists, ad salespeople and academicians convened to certify his good fortune, popularity, newsworthiness, bankability, celebrity, whatever...
Melanie R. Thernstrom '87, a writer for the New Yorker, said in an interview yesterday that she is preparing a book on the 1995 murder-suicide in Dunster House...
Last June she published an article in the New Yorker about the murder-suicide, which occurred as students prepared to move out of the Houses for the summer vacation...
...Game 5--and the wall-banging celebration of Paul O'Neill after he caught the ball at the last instant. Best of all, there was the just reward for Torre after 37 years in baseball. In order to win his first World Series, the 56-year-old native New Yorker did something truly extraordinary--he gave the Yankees back their identity. They are no longer George Steinbrenner's team, though he still owns them. They now belong to Pettitte and Joe Girardi and Bernie Williams, the way the Yankees once belonged to Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle...
Robinson, a native New Yorker and decorated Vietnam veteran, promises to use the Internet to keep in touch with constituents. He also says he has a detailed plan to save Medicare, including a proposal to give cash rewards for reports of fraud. But this G.O.P.-dominated district may not reward the Democratic Robinson, especially against five-term incumbent Joel Hefley...