Word: yorkerism
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...Toobin—the New Yorker writer and CNN legal analyst—covers deeper waters today, but they were ones he never intended to swim...
...Second, it's wrong. Operations as diverse as the New Yorker magazine, the newspaper USA Today and Bloomberg's news service have all managed (through various ups and downs in a turbulent business) to strengthen their journalism while improving their financial performance...
...Night. New Yorker James Gray makes grimy melodramas (Little Odessa, The Yards) about working-class guys from the outer boroughs who are forced to face moral dilemmas or brutally erase them. The main characters in this new one are a cop father (Robert Duvall) and his two sons, one a cop (Mark Wahlberg), the other (Joaquin Phoenix) the manager of a Brighton Beach nightclub crawling with Russian mobsters. The police are portrayed as stalwart but mostly dewy do-gooders, so they fade in screen appeal next to the Russky tough guys - nothing like a monster mobster with a guttural accent...
...Sanchez immediately admonished Karpinski for "serious deficiencies" and quietly suspended her from command. In January Sanchez ordered a full-scale probe of prison practices under the charge of Major General Antonio Taguba, who completed his "Secret/No Foreign Dissemination" report in early March. The report, first obtained by the New Yorker two weeks ago and now on the Internet, blames MP commanders for poor leadership and a refusal to enforce basic standards. But it points to plenty of other failings as well. Overcrowded cells held too many prisoners guarded by unsupervised reservists with inadequate training. Left on their own, the soldiers...
...concentration, Vasiliauskas is certainly not a novice writer. She has published numerous poems and some essays in both magazines she works for, and is now looking to make her voice heard in the wider world by submitting to professional publications.“I started off with the New Yorker and the Paris Review,” she says with a nervous smile. “But I’m sure I’ll have to work my way well down my list before anything comes of it.”Instead of seeking a stereotypical neo-beatnik...