Farouk Hosni was the clear leader going into voting last week, but hasn’t been able to cinch the 30 votes from the UNESCO board to win -- probably because UNESCO nations are reluctant to elect someone who said, famously, that he would “burn ...
If I ever found myself the victim of a crime, and was able to hire any detective—living, dead, or imaginary—to help me out, I would call one of the female private eyes from 1930s and 1940s pulp novels. The women who fought fictional crime in that hyper- ...
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The Times article today on how all med students are going into dermatology and plastic surgery instead of general medicine was rather fascinating -- maybe the answer is some sort of Harvard Law-style loan forgiveness program for med students who ...
Tomorrow is the deadline for applications to next year's reporter-researcher internship. So, if you've got some journalism experience and want to join the team, send us your stuff. We're still accepting applications for the summer web internship, so ...
I'm coming a little late into Chris and Michael's discussion of this, but I watched Dirty Dancing over the weekend, certainly not for the first time ever but possibly for the first time since puberty, and was struck by how thoughtful and realistic the ...
Not that it was unexpected, but Unity08's founders, old media hands Gerald Rafshoon and Doug Bailey, have just left to work on drafting Bloomberg, taking most of the credibility and experience Unity08 ever had with them and leaving celebrity promoter ...
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REVIEW Two best friends swap lives, but how long can it last? Britt Peterson Wednesday, September 6, 2006 Small Acts of Sex and Electricity By Lise Haines UNBRIDLED BOOKS; 243 PAGES; $23.95 The clash between everyday reality and covetous imagination is ...
The art of stuffing very much into a small space has always seemed to come naturally to Sheila Heti, a former star of the Toronto literary scene (she has since relocated to Montreal) and acclaimed author of "The Middle Stories." In those ...
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