Word: yorkerism
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...author of two novels, most recently Mona in the Promised Land. Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and the 1988 and 1995 editions of Best American Short Stories...
...have known what was coming: a major story about him and a $200-an-hour call girl. By Thursday morning, his friends and family were gathered in the hotel suite to hear him announce that he was resigning as the President's chief campaign strategist. But Morris, a New Yorker who had always been able to talk his way out of the most embarrassing jams, was so distraught he couldn't speak. A man at home in the campaigner's world of beeper, fax, phone and keyboard, he grabbed his wife's laptop. "He wrote a note...
...when the Arkansas attorney general was trying to decide whether to run for Governor or Senator, he began thinking about Morris. They had met a few months earlier, when the New Yorker was traveling the country pitching himself to politicians, fast-talking his way into their offices and dazzling them with his ideas about using polls to shape policy. Morris believed that key issues, if objectively researched and properly framed, could move segments of the electorate in predictable ways. "No feelings get into anything he does," recalls G.O.P. consultant Bob Goodman, who worked with Morris for years...
...easy to dismiss Gilbert Kaplan as just another rich New Yorker with a hobby he can afford. Kaplan, 55, former publisher of Institutional Investor magazine, is mad for Mahler. Through his private Kaplan Foundation, formed a decade ago, he has immersed himself in the composer's life and music, tracking down every extant photograph of Mahler for a book and issuing a facsimile of Mahler's score of the Symphony No. 2, better known as the "Resurrection" Symphony--which just happens to be the object of Kaplan's special passion...
...Klein, cocky during his press conference, became more subdued as he suffered the contempt of his colleagues. "The public looks at us as people who make judgments about character,'' said nbc News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert. "When they see one of us lying, it hurts everyone." Added New Yorker media columnist Ken Auletta: "The issue of cover-up became the issue. Maynard Parker allowed something to go into publication that he knew was untrue. Here's Newsweek requesting an interview with Admiral Boorda to ask him whether he had lied about the medals on his chest. We have...