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Tag Archives: New York Times
Class Acts o’ the Day (Mo & Rafa Edition)
Let’s start with Rafael Nadal, winner of the Gentleman’s Final at Wimbledon – and the Gentleman’s Anything everywhere else. How classy is Nadal? He absolutely manhandled Tomas Berdych, but afterward made the match sound like some Strawberries-and-Cream Smackdown. To paraphrase: … Continue reading
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Tagged CBS Sports, ESPN, Mariano Rivera, New York Times, Rafael Nadal, Wimbledon
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Name o’ the Day (Circle Lenses Edition)
Sunday New York Times front-page headline: What Big Eyes You Have, Dear, but Are Those Contacts Risky? The piece spotlights circle lenses, “colored contacts — sometimes in weird shades like violet and pink — that make the eyes appear larger … Continue reading
Apple Is Just iNsulting
Stop the presses! Apple Acknowledges Flaw in iPhone Signal Meter As Saturday’s New York Times reported, Apple – after several days of calling its customers idiots – is finally owning up to screwing up the iPhone 4. Well, sort of … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Boy Genius, iPhone 4, iPhone signal meter, New York Times, Steve Jobs
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The New Sunshine Law
Friday New York Times Page One headline: Graduation Is the Goal, Staying Alive the Prize Lede: CHICAGO — The bonding moment between Veronica Tinajero and the student she calls Big Sunshine came during one of their first meetings. “Have you … Continue reading
New York Times Hitched To Christopher
The New York Times has been a veritable Christopher Hitchens-rama over the past few weeks. In reverse order: Nice David Brooks piece in Friday’s Times about “the essayist Christopher Hitchens announc[ing] that he has cancer of the esophagus and will … Continue reading
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Tagged "but" graf, Christopher Hitchens, David Brooks, Deborah Solomon, Hitch-22, Jennifer Senior, New York Times
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At Least Toronto Got Its Protection Money’s Worth
As the hardworking staff noted yesterday, Canada spent a billion dollars (a.k.a. a lot of loonies) on security at this past weekend’s Group of 8/Group of 20 hoedown. And it sure paid off. From Monday’s New York Times: Police in … Continue reading
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Tagged aggressive police tactics, Amnesty International, Group of 20, Group of 8, New York Times, Toronto
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Loonie Canada
Sunday New York Times headline: Canadians Are Agog at the Security Bill: $12 Million Per Hour Lede: Few Canadians expected that hosting world leaders at back-to-back summit meetings here this weekend would be cheap or convenient. With downtown Toronto a … Continue reading
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Tagged Group of 20, Group of 8, loonie, New York Times, Toronto, Vancouver Olympics
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Sal DiMasi Is Still A Small-Time Fraud
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that prosecutions of honest services fraud, as the Boston Globe reports, “should be used only to prosecute cases involving bribery and kickback schemes.” That’s mother’s milk to belegaled former Massachusetts House Speaker Sal … Continue reading
Campaign Outsider NYT Corrections Preview (pat. pending)
So late Thursday night the hardworking staff finally caught up with that day’s New York Times report on Part Two of the Sisyphean John Isner/Nicolas Mahut Wimbledon rock-roll, which was suspended at 59-59. As the match wore on, Isner, 25, … Continue reading
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Tagged corrections, fifth match point, John Isner, New York Times, Nicolas Mahut, Wimbledon
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BP=Brutish Petroleum (NYT), Bash President (WSJ)
Saturday was surely Bratish Petroleum day, what with Typhoid Tony Hayward gone a-yachting and all. Via the New York Times: BP officials on Saturday scrambled yet again to respond to another public relations challenge when their embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, … Continue reading
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