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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(Nov. 17) -- First encounters with the Republican elite, Twitter and the non-existent hierarchy of Palin's inner circle are just a few topics covered in Robert Draper's new Mama Grizzly profile -- "The Palin Network" -- published Wednesday on The New York Times website and available this weekend in print from The New York Times Magazine. Rather than serve up the usual healthy dose of Sarah Palin tabloid gold (see Willow's homophobic Facebook slurs, Bristol advancing on "Dancing With The Stars" and the 67-year-old Wisconsin man who shot his television after Bristol's performance for today's ...
"The best-case scenario for women seeking abortion is that she gets a safe and legal [one] . . . But even for that girl, it's not a great day. It's not like a normal victory, you know? No one's popping champagne." Rachel Grady, co-director, '12th & Delaware' HBO Documentary Series This week my daughter Rachel has been in my thoughts almost constantly and so, inevitably, she slides into my written words. She's about to have a baby in September and our mother-daughter conversations have recently dwelled on topics of doulas and breast-milk pumps. Neither of those concepts was relevant or even ...
Author J.D. Salinger, who died in January, is once again in the news, in all his appalling glory. The Morgan Library in Manhattan has put on display Salinger's correspondence with a friend -- Michael Mitchell, the artist who drew the original illustration on Salinger's 1951 novel, "Catcher in the Rye." ...
Life unfolds over decades, and along the way we trade our youth for experience, develop perspective where we once only saw possibilities and exhaust our hustle while building our reputations. At the cusp of my seventh decade the things that make my day are more often small victories and avoided calamities rather than red-letter events worthy of multiple exclamation points. My husband, the novelist James Grady, got a big break in his early 20s when a manuscript he submitted by mail (from a list he found in his hometown library in Shelby, Mont.) was accepted by a New York book publisher and ...
A happy marriage is a wonderful thing. Too bad it's wasted on the happily married. ...
Speaking of wise eating, Michelle, Sunday's New York Times magazine was full of advice on this issue, and the response in the blogosphere was not all friendly. In fact, it tended toward either extreme, kind of the way our American eating habits (binge/starve; fast food/slow food; cook everything/cook nothing) are portrayed. People seemed to either swoon over every single word that was printed, or to reject its preachy tone and continuous nudging toward home cooking as an answer to our bad eating habits and copious health ills. I didn't find the issue to be especially provocative, though ...
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