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...classic New Yorker, shares the same sentiment as Hagan. “The best part of it isn’t the fact that I can sit here and say I’m a debutante,” Ma says. “It doesn’t mean anything—I’m not going to put that on a résumé. It was having that moment with all my best friends, from here and from home,” she says. “How many times in your life...
...acknowledgment of lurking dangers backfire? "Such an article does nothing but scare us and reinforce our helplessness," complained a weary--and wary--New Yorker. And a handful of you cautioned that a discussion of how to prevent more attacks not only might be unnerving but also might invite them. "I'm surprised at how openly you release information about America's insufficient resources and unpreparedness," remarked a Californian. "Whatever the FBI and CIA are doing should stay secret," agreed another California reader. "Why are we giving ideas to terrorists who are likely still in our country...
...controversy over the judging of pairs skating extended to the pictures in our story. Some of you felt the Russians got shafted by ugly photographs. "I am disgusted by the blatant partisanship evidenced in your photos of the Russian figure skaters," declared a New Yorker. "You must have searched high and low for the least flattering pictures you could find." A Vancouver, B.C., reader shared the sentiment. "Surely, out of the hundreds of shots available, you could have published a more complimentary one of Anton Sikharulidze. Shame on you!" The cover portrait of the Canadians, however, got a round...
...score, Klein would be the guy. Sure, there was the slippery, glib Southern pol inside Bill Clinton, but there was also the thoughtful, work-till-the-last-dog-dies wunderkind. As the first reporter to swoon over the Governor from Arkansas (no one fell harder, save perhaps the New Yorker's Sidney Blumenthal, who fell so hard he ended up inside the Administration), Klein seemed the most famously disappointed whenever the good Clinton gave way to the bad. Klein expressed it best in Primary Colors, the novel about a larger-than-life good ole boy with appetites as expansive...
...Seoul's new crop of serious coffee shops. Foreign franchises like Starbucks and dozens of local outlets are competing for a market that barely existed two years ago. "People like the idea of walking around with a paper cup, it makes them into something else, maybe a New Yorker," says Ahn Ung Chun, owner of Caffe Italiano in the Seoul suburb of Bundang. "Because it's something new, the demand keeps growing. We are creating the consumers...