New York World

It Takes a Pillage, Part V

The U.S. Senate building, Washington, D.C. Late night. An office, dark except for a pool of light from a knockoff Tiffany lamp. Rain slashing against windows.

THE AIDE: Edwards continues to climb, I’m afraid. He’s at 21 percent in New Hampshire to your 27 percent. He’s getting a Read More

GQ, Esquire Spar, But Zinczenko Says He’s a Rock Star

“Magazine editors are the new rock stars,” said David Zinczenko, the dreamy, hazel-eyed editor in chief of Men’s Health as he sat in a taxicab early on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 27. “It’s about time people start recognizing us as the smart, funny guys that we are. And we smell better, too.”

Mr. Zinczenko’s Read More

Elfin Singer Delights Viewers

On the morning of Jan. 26, an apple-cheeked unknown from Astoria, Queens, named Andy Milonakis crawled out of bed and made the most important decision of his life.

He decided not to attend a friend’s Super Bowl party.

Instead, Mr. Milonakis picked up a guitar he can’t really play, turned on a video camera Read More

Bratton: A Good Man for Our City

Think about it: If you were considering a campaign to succeed Rudolph Giuliani, and you wished to run, like Mr. Giuliani, as a Republican, wouldn’t it behoove you to cultivate the Mayor and his voter base?

So it would seem. And yet former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, a savvy guy and a public official of Read More