"Mr. Eldridge opened the front door of the house to greet their guest, as Lucy, the couple’s 6-month-old Rhodesian Ridgeback, bounded down the bluestone walkway. Mr. Eldridge, the taller of the two men, wore a snug sweater that revealed a body toned by weights and daily runs in the hills behind his house. He flashed a polite smile that faded as he turned to go indoors. Mr. Hughes, who earlier that day had spoken on a panel at the local library about the future of books, seemed more at ease, sweetly grinning as he offered a guest a glass of Pellegrino and a brief tour."
“Out of Context” The game of outrageous quotes.
Found at 99-cent store.
In the co-pilot’s seat, Puerto Rico mainland to Vieques
The Powers that Be
THE VANITY FAIR NEW ESTABLISHMENT
1. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
2. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google
3. Jeff Bezos, Amazon
4. Tim Cook and Jonathan Ive, Apple
5. Jack Dorsey, Square, Twitter
6. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz
7. Reed Hastings, Netflix
8. John Lasseter, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios
9. Lady Gaga, singer
10. Dan Doctoroff, Bloomberg L.P.
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Eight years in the White House, two wars that still are still dragging on - and zero mistakes? “I didn’t say no mistakes,” he replied. “But … from the standpoint of what I wanted to put down, what I knew about, what I was intimately involved in, I think we got it right.”
Cheney, 70, may know more of the nation’s secrets than any living person: He had four decades of briefings as a member of the House intelligence committee, White House chief of staff under President Gerald Ford, defense secretary during Desert Storm and vice president in the age of terror. He rewarded aides who avoided the press, and rarely talked himself.
"Politico Playbook, Sept. 1, 2011
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"The retailer came come under fire for selling a long-sleeved shirt with the words “I’m Too Pretty To Do Homework, So My other Has to Do it For Me."
JCPenney yanks ‘I’m Too Pretty for Homework’ shirt off web site, apologizes for sexist garment
"This is an increasingly sophisticated and hazardous media world,” said Mr. Tapper, who as a rising media star often found his career and even his personal life the subject of interest by blogs and media critics. “Undermining a 27-year-old reporter — if it is in the interest of a campaign or a party that wants to discredit a news organization — it’s impossible for me to believe that’s not going to happen."
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Before and After
They seem almost cute now in their anachronism [N1]: self-confirmed billionaires in snug suits and tight-faced dowagers, gold-digging boys and girls on the make, supermodels and grasping politicians—all with tremendous infrastructures, traveling cities of PR people and advisers, packing into SUVs and heading east to the Hamptons, hedge-funders to the hedgerows, reveling in it, wielding their chunky cell phones like newfound ingots. No wonder we had a ball covering them! - The Real Peter Kaplan
N1: Items From “Page Six,” September 10, 2001
Venus and Serena Williams and their former coach, Rick Macci, had got into a playful spat over $35 he owed one of the sisters.
Bob Guccione Jr. was flying the Rev. Michael Holleran, of St. Joseph’s Church in the Village, to Italy to preside over his September 22 wedding.
The Gracie Mansion gallery in Chelsea was opening a show inspired by the transsexual Amanda Lear.
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker had bought a five-bedroom Victorian fixer-upper in Bridgehampton for just under $2 million.
Several record labels were angry at MTV for charging them to get their artists on the annual Video Music Awards show. (Jennifer Lopez’s appearance had cost Sony $250,000.)
Busta Rhymes had been spotted taking his wife and two kids on a three-hour tour of the Museum of Natural History.
Robin Cook had asked restaurateur Nello Balan to proofread the Italian translation of his latest novel, Shock.
Joan Jett was about to walk the runway for Cynthia Steffe, uncharacteristically clad in skirts and frilly blouses.
Mariah Carey’s forthcoming album, Glitter, and her film of the same title, were rumored to be terrible.
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Flooding from Irene at North 12th and Kent
