The upheaval, violence and riots in Egypt are immensely troubling.
Who’s responsible for this faux pas? Well, if those initials at the end are to be taken literally, it came straight from the BlackBerry of Kenneth Cole himself. A subsequent tweet indicated that the company wasn’t “intending to make light of a serious Read More
Agitated over their declining credibility, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are answering accusations that they misled the nation into war with characteristic aggressiveness. They’re understandably alarmed by the increasing consensus among Americans that they exaggerated and distorted intelligence to justify invading Iraq.
What alarms everyone else—including many members of the President’s Read More
Agitated over their declining credibility, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are answering accusations that they misled the nation into war with characteristic aggressiveness. They’re understandably alarmed by the increasing consensus among Americans that they exaggerated and distorted intelligence to justify invading Iraq.
What alarms everyone else—including many members of the Read More
The all-important Nagourney/Slackman political reporting slot at the Times is going to Pat Healy. No, not that Pat Healy. That Pat Healy.
Here’s the memo:
Subject: good news from metro
To: The Staff
From: Susan Edgerley
March 26, 2005
Patrick D. Healy will become Metro’s next government and politics correspondent, taking Read More
I have written the definitive guide to being a bombshell. I have deconstructed their entrances, exits, tantrums, fashions, body language. I have studied their hobbies, reading material, perfumes. I have watched How to Marry a Millionaire at least seven times, Promises! Promises! at least three. If I missed any details-if I didn’t recall the brand Read More
Out of Place: A Memoir , by Edward W. Said. Alfred A. Knopf, 295 pages, $26.95.
Edward Said, an author with many claims to celebrity, has now written an account of his early life. Of Palestinian origin, he lived mostly in Cairo before going to an American prep school, Princeton and Harvard. His remarkable father Read More
Merrill Kramer, an attorney at the Washington, D.C., powerhouse firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, has waited 13 months. Now he wants an answer.
In 1993, he was shot by a terrorist gunman while dining at the Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel in Cairo, Egypt. In 1996, he and others filed a $132.5 million lawsuit Read More
