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Sophomore Kristen Hall, whose sister works for RNC chairman Ed Gillespie, agreed. “It’s a dirty little secret, being a Republican on campus,” the brunette New Yorker said. “We’re definitely a minority.” The all-white group of girls laughed loudly...
Greene responded defensively to criticism of his coverage of the Vietnam War in his 1955 novel The Quiet American, claiming, “the New Yorker reviewer condemned me for accusing my ‘best friends’ [the Americans] of murder since I had attributed to them the responsibility for the great [bomb]…But [the facts] are the facts…[and] perhaps there is more direct rapportage in The Quiet American than in any other [of my] novels...
Such is the life of Susan Orlean, a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of The Orchid Thief, on which the movie Adaptation is based. Last Wednesday evening, a crowd of fans slogged through the rain to the Brattle Theater to hear Orlean read selections from her latest book My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere, a collection of short pieces that Orlean has written over the years, all dealing with the theme of “journeys...
Executives at Cendant, the travel and real estate giant, were sick of handing over part of their profits to online travel bookers. So they tried last spring to persuade the operators of the largest hotel in Cendant's Ramada franchise, the 1,015-room New Yorker in Manhattan, to avoid business from online agents like Expedia, Hotels.com Travelocity and Orbitz, which take a cut for every room they fill. "We had to tell them no," recalls Tom McCaffrey, director of marketing at the New Yorker. "These sites fill 200 rooms a night for us, more than Ramada's website...
...wing woman, like the more conventional wing man, takes one for the team, putting in all the work to meet a woman, without reaping any of the benefits. Wing women are such a valuable weapon resource that Shane Forbes, a young New Yorker, has started wingwomen.com, a “ridiculously successful” service where a man can hire a smart, attractive woman to go out with and help introduce him to other women...