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The young blond Frenchman, dressed all in black down to his leather wristband, drinks champagne with  read more »

The young blond Frenchman, dressed all in black down to his leather wristband, drinks champagne with  read more »

I feel that Andy Warhol spoke for all of us when he said: “You can’t take a princess to dinner a  read more »

I feel that Andy Warhol spoke for all of us when he said: “You can’t take a princess to  read more »

That Reporter--or, as he called himself, T.R.--sat at his desk and thought about words. It was a Wednesday in New York, and an airplane had hit an apartment building. Had what? Hit it? A building? Yes, it had. Debris had fallen from the sky. Debris lay scattered in the street. Debris and facts.

Who would gather the facts? Other reporters would gather the facts. They were out there, in the rain, the other reporters. Rain was falling, like the debris had fallen. Rain was falling on the other reporters.

But T.R. was thinking about words. Words were his tools, because he was a writer. Perhaps he should start calling himself "T.W." He was not some grunt-working fact-gatherer. T.R. was an interpreter. Other people could gather the bricks and mix the mortar and lay the bricks and plaster the walls and make sure the building stood up and install the plumbing. T.R. was the architect. That was a metaphor. T.R. knew that was a metaphor; that was the sort of thing that a writer would know.

T.R. looked at his screen.  read more »

In the beginning of September, Beyoncé celebrated her birthday and Justin Timberlake brought  read more »

FIFA says that its ranking system, elaborated with the help of Coca-Cola, has been "reliable" over the years.

While Bill Clinton and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee took on obesity uptown with pledges from Coke and Pepsi to cut down soda portions for kids during the school day, Mayor Bloomberg was left to defend his favorite soft drink.

"Snapple has calories like other things," said Bloomberg.

If you live in ZIP code 10021, the odds are that you don’t have diabetes, that no one in your  read more »

If you live in ZIP code 10021, the odds are that you don’t have diabetes, that no one in your fami  read more »

“Refined” is not an adjective normally associated with Korean food.  read more »

“Refined” is not an adjective normally associated with Korean food.  read more »

I'm looking to make restitution. For a primal violation of New York etiquette.  read more »

Is Master Masa's SushiWorth the Clams?  read more »

"Just when I think I've heard everything, I learn that Snapple is buying out our school system," sai  read more »

Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers , by Alissa Quart. Perseus, 239 pages, $25.  read more »

Expectations for the Congressional leadership have reached such a dismal level that they can now get  read more »

Unlike those New Yorkers who are fully invested in self-improvement, I start my days-at least warm s  read more »

While others have been dining at restaurants like Jean-Georges, Le Madri and Gramercy Tavern to help  read more »

It is heartening to learn that some people have heededPresident Bush's call for citizen action rathe  read more »

An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America , by Gary Cross.  read more »

To understand the Coca-Cola Company's recent, senseless decision to fire 20 percent of its work forc  read more »

My wife and I got a ride from the ashram back to Mysore on Dec. 29, and the road was awful.  read more »

The English and Irish imports must be confusing someone, apart from me.  read more »