Ever since hip-hop impresario Sean (Puffy) Combs was implicated in a Manhattan nightclub shooting on Dec. 27, 1999, the New York tabloids have been giddily awaiting a possible trial. Mr. Combs’ story did have all the deliciously spicy and necessary ingredients for a tabloid classic–Mr. Combs is a dashing, if troubled, music mogul with millions Read More
Just when you thought there was absolutely nothing
worthwhile left to say about the election, two of my colleagues went out of
their way (in last week’s Observer )
to prove it. Of course, rubbish is as rubbish does, and there is absolute
rubbish and proportional rubbish. The notion that W. and his partisans are Read More
Lars-Erik Nelson spent Nov. 20 much like he spent most of the past two weeks: closely monitoring the Presidential ballot fight in Florida from the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Daily News . The Florida Supreme Court was hearing arguments, and Mr. Nelson, the national affairs columnist for the Daily News , spent the afternoon Read More
