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While The Times wrings its hands, the new blog The Days of Yore offers reassurance for the under-employed youth. The site interviews real-life famous people (Writers! Actors, even!) about their pasts. How did they manage to survive and (eventually) succeed when, as Anne Fadiman puts it, one’s salad days Read More

By Tom Scocca 4/05/04 12:00am

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Having tumbled from the chair held by Turner Catledge and James (Scotty) Reston, Howell Raines, the ex–executive editor of The New York Times , is creating a Page Six atmosphere at his alma mater.

His 23-page autopsy report on his Times career-due out in the May Atlantic Monthly and widely circulating in preview form-owes its Read More

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