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Sep 27, 2010
Letter From Moscow
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Garage Mechanics [ABSTRACT]
- LETTER FROM MOSCOW about Dasha Zhukova and the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture. In the Western press, Zhukova is best known as the girlfriend of Roman Abramovich, the Russian oil billionaire, who is the world’s fiftieth-richest man, according to Forbes, and has extremely close ties to the…
Sep 27, 2010
Onward and Upward with the Arts
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Adaptation [ABSTRACT]
- ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about “Gatz,” Elevator Repair Service’s staging of “The Great Gatsby.” It would be misleading to call “Gatz,” which débuts at the Public Theatre later this month, an adaptation of “The Great Gatsby,” since nothing in the novel has been altered to conform to theatrical…
Sep 27, 2010
Annals Of Law
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Without A Paddle [ABSTRACT]
- ANNALS OF LAW about Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. For the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt battled the Supreme Court over the New Deal, a Democratic President is seeking to strengthen and expand the regulatory power of the federal government, and his opponents, as in the nineteen-thirties, are…
Sep 27, 2010
Profiles
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The Unconsoled
- PROFILE of Israeli novelist David Grossman. Tells about his career as a writer and broadcaster, the death of his son, Uri, who was killed by a Hezbollah missile during military service, and the composition of his novel, “To the End of the Land…
Sep 20, 2010
Blogging Dept.
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Tavi Says [ABSTRACT]
- BLOGGING DEPT. about teenage fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson. By now, most people in the fashion industry recognize Tavi Gevinson, a fourteen-year-old girl from the suburbs of Chicago, who has been writing a fashion blog, Style Rookie, since she was eleven. Her blog is an enthusiastic chronicle of her…
Sep 20, 2010
Annals of Invention
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How to Make It [ABSTRACT]
- ANNALS OF INVENTION about James Dyson and Dyson vacuum cleaners. In the fall of 2002, the British inventor James Dyson entered the U.S. market with an upright vacuum cleaner, the Dyson DC07. Dyson was the product’s designer, engineer, manufacturer, and pitchman. The price was three hundred and ninety-nine dollars…
Sep 20, 2010
Profiles
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The Merchant [ABSTRACT]
- PROFILE of J. Crew chairman Millard (“Mickey”) Drexler. “Can I have your attention, please?” A dozen or so times a day at J. Crew headquarters in Manhattan, a voice comes over the intercom with a low-fidelity reverb that brings to mind a muezzin’s call to prayer. The voice belongs…
Sep 20, 2010
Letter from Palo Alto
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The Face of Facebook
- LETTER FROM PALO ALTO about Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg founded the social-networking site Facebook in his college dorm room six years ago. Five hundred million people have joined since, and eight hundred and seventy-nine of them are his friends. The site is a directory of…
Sep 13, 2010
The Political Scene
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Frat House for Jesus
- THE POLITICAL SCENE about the C Street house and the Fellowship. One midwinter night in 2008, several congressional colleagues of Senator John Ensign, of Nevada, entered his bedroom at the C Street house and conducted an intervention. Several weeks earlier, Senator Tom Coburn, another C Street member, had learned that…
Sep 13, 2010
Letter from Colorado
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The Uranium Widows [ABSTRACT]
- LETTER FROM COLORADO about uranium mining. There are many uranium widows in southwestern Colorado. The local history of uranium is long and often troubled, and the economy has been devastated since the Three Mile Island accident, in 1979, when Americans turned against nuclear power. Of the old-time Colorado miners…
