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By Kim Velsey 1/03 2:29pm

Bush Appointee Reuben Jefferey III Buys $9 M. Park Avenue Spread

As we sluggishly drag our feet through the first few days of 2013, it is comforting to see evidence that as much as some things have changed, other things remain the same. The residential divide between Uptown and Downtown has all but been erased and the Manhattan/Brooklyn hierarchy turned on its head, but Republican diplomats still prefer the rarefied precincts of Park Avenue.

Reuben Jeffery III, the former Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs appointed by George W. Bush and wife Robin have purchased a floor-through at 620 Park Avenue, according to city records. Read More

By Patrick Clark 7/16/12 6:35am

Morning Read

DOJ Builds Criminal Cases Around Libor; Couple Sues Goldman Seeking Damages That May Top $1 Billion: Roundup

Libor-ated: The U.S. Department of Justice is building criminal cases against financial institutions and individuals involved in the manipulation of interbank lending rates, according to The New York Times. Deutsche Bank agreed to cooperate with the European Commission’s Libor investigation, reports Der Spiegel. Prosecutors in New York, Connecticut, Florida and Massachusetts are looking Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 6/14/12 10:33am

apologies

HBO Apologizes for Decapitated George W. Bush On Game of Thrones

HBO has apologized after a scene in Game of Thrones featuring the disembodied head of George W. Bush on a pike was uncovered. HBO told the website io9: “We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste”; the scene will be removed from future releases Read More

By Patrick Clark 5/24/12 4:12pm

Big Pitch

Bronx Bombers Not for Sale; But Who Might be Willing to Buy Them?

Someone finally wrote the story that’s been the talk of baseball and banking circles ever since Guggenheim Partners CEO Mark Walter (over)paid $2.175 billion for the Dodgers in April: That what was good for the McCourts of Los Angeles might be even better for the Steinbrenners of Tampa. Indeed, the Daily News posits that Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/23/11 7:06pm

The Eight-Day Week

Novak Djokovic at the 2010 U.S. Open (Patrick McMullan)

The U.S. Open Opens For Business in the Eight-Day Week

Wednesday, August 24

Bassline

What better way to kick off a late-summer festival in celebration of extraordinary athleticism than with the sweatiest, most athletic music act in the game? Girl Talk (né Gregg Gillis), the Pittsburgh D.J. whose mixes mash together classic rap with ultra-current pop and whose concerts could very well Read More

By Reid Pillifant 8:11pm

2012

Ed Koch, Reluctantly for Obama

In 2004, former mayor Ed Koch committed an act of Democratic treason and endorsed George W. Bush in his re-election bid against John Kerry. In Koch’s estimation, Bush could be counted on to keep the country safe, and that pre-empted any concerns about their domestic policies.

In an email to his mailing list this afternoon, Read More

By Nate Freeman 2/01/11 4:10pm

Fake Empire

Aristocratic Swindle! ‘Lady’ in Red Attempts Ponzi on Bushes and Guggenheims

Lady Catarina Pietra Toumei — a woman who attempted to swindle the Bushes and the Guggenheims out of billions in cash, bonds and goods — is not the first to don a fake title to climb the social ladder. Rather, she’s just the latest to practice the great American tradition of aristocratic fabulism, a Old Read More

By Nate Freeman 12/28/10 6:20pm

Po-Mo Prose

London Review of Books: When Comparing Prose Styles, George W. Bush is the new Tao Lin

George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points landed in stores last November to the requisite curiosity and instant relaying of anything relatively juicy. But Decision Points was never looked at as a book – even Michiko Kakutani, in The New York Times, barely addressed the prose styles of our former commander in chief. Perhaps Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/08/10 9:25pm

Books Sales

Which Politicians Write the Books That Fly Off the Shelves?

Decision Points, President George W. Bush’s hotly anticipated memoir, will hit bookstores tomorrow. If the leaked anecdotes are any indication, this thing’s going to be quite the page-turner! But even if it’s chock full of juicy tidbits that rival W.’s Kanye-hating, there’s no surefire way of telling just how many copies the Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/03/10 4:13pm

Diss Tracks

In NBC Interview, Bush Calls Kanye’s On-Air Insult Worst Moment of Presidency

In anticipation of the Nov. 9 release of his memoir Decision Points, George W. Bush will sit down with Matt Lauer for a prime-time news special this Monday to talk over the experiences relayed in the book. In the excerpts released yesterday in a press release, the NBC anchor grilled the ex-head of Read More

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Bush Appointee Reuben Jefferey III Buys $9 M. Park Avenue Spread

DOJ Builds Criminal Cases Around Libor; Couple Sues Goldman Seeking Damages That May Top $1 Billion: Roundup

HBO Apologizes for Decapitated George W. Bush On Game of Thrones

Bronx Bombers Not for Sale; But Who Might be Willing to Buy Them?

The U.S. Open Opens For Business in the Eight-Day Week

Ed Koch, Reluctantly for Obama

Aristocratic Swindle! ‘Lady’ in Red Attempts Ponzi on Bushes and Guggenheims

London Review of Books: When Comparing Prose Styles, George W. Bush is the new Tao Lin

Which Politicians Write the Books That Fly Off the Shelves?

In NBC Interview, Bush Calls Kanye’s On-Air Insult Worst Moment of Presidency

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