Mar 8, 2012
I’ve shared a masthead with him at The Atlantic for five years now, and no name brings me more honor by association. I didn’t know him, except in the sense that I spent minutes in his company at magazine parties in Washington, hours hearing him speak on television and the Web, and my entire adult life admiring him in print. He combined that perpetual sense of irritation with a serpentine charm. With just the charm, he would have been frivolous; with just the irritation, a bore. Instead he was Christopher Hitchens: a master, now sorely missed. [via]
Nov 22, 2010
Enough said!
Sep 7, 2010
Other celeb parents on equine duty in the Hamptons included Matt Lauer and his wife Annette Roque, whose daughter Romy, 6, also competed.
“My daughter did great,” Annette reported. “I was a mess, I was sweating! She got a silver ribbon.” Added Matt, “Romy loves the sport and she doesn’t really care about where she finishes.”
(From the archives)
Orszag and [Claire] Milonas, the daughter of New York-based Greek shipping magnate Spiros Milonas, were a serious item when he met the stunning Golodgryga at the White House correspondents’ dinner.
‘‘Claire told Peter she was pregnant, and he said he’d marry her — and then something went wrong,’’ a source close to the situation told The Post.
But, frankly, Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims. And among those Muslims led by the Imam Rauf there is hardly one who has raised a fuss about the routine and random bloodshed that defines their brotherhood. So, yes, I wonder whether I need honor these people and pretend that they are worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment which I have in my gut the sense that they will abuse.
Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
I’m going to go out on a limb and say Leonard Lopate. I don’t know him personally, but to my mind, he’s the voice of the city — especially when he’s just listening.
