Magazine Nabobs Resolve in 2008 to Kick Bad Habits: Waverly Inn, Post

Each New Year brings with it the obligatory slate of resolutions. And like some college-level sociological experiment, each New Year also brings with it a slate of stories about what famous people have resolved to either quit—smoking, say—or begin—usually something kind of boring, like marathon training or French classes. True to form, WWD recently called Read More

In Living E-Mail: Press Makes News By Writing Home

“Baghdad is getting back on its feet,” a foreign correspondent wrote in an e-mail to friends, “with new restaurants, designer clothing and shops where you can now buy everything from Oreos to Pantene.”

Unfortunately, that assessment is 10 months old. “This one is now hilarious in its optimism,” the author wrote this week, passing Read More