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Obama Wins Booker Prize
The Mann Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award, has been conferred for 2009 on President Obama, it was announced yesterday. Not only is this the first time the Booker Prize has gone to an American. It is the...
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| October 10, 2009; 12:04 PM ET |
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Newspapers Exposed: Publications to Sell Pieces of Themselves
It took about five minutes after the story got out for The Post to announce it was cancelling plans to charge corporations $25,000 for the privilege of sponsoring dinners at the publisher’s house, where their executives could mingle with...
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| July 4, 2009; 8:07 AM ET |
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Ideas -- and Jack Kemp
What moves history? Is it the power of ideas? Or is it the power of objective forces like money, for example, deployed behind ideas no more complex or sophisticated than simple self-interest? Jack Kemp, the former Republican congressman and...
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| May 4, 2009; 2:56 PM ET |
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Banking for Dummies
If not wiser heads, then at least richer heads seem likely to prevail in the dispute over limits on executive pay in the stimulus package. The Obama version contained some restrictions on pay for top executives of banks that...
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| February 16, 2009; 6:24 PM ET |
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Editorials and Double Standards
In withdrawing from consideration for secretary of health and human services, former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle had five words of explanation: “I read the New York Times.” The Times this morning published an editorial calling for Daschle to...
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| February 3, 2009; 6:53 PM ET |
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For Caroline Kennedy, a Standards Deviation
Caroline Kennedy is being held to a totally invented standard by those who say she is unqualified to take over Hillary Clinton's Senate seat and is only under consideration because her name is Kennedy. Of the past ten senators...
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| December 19, 2008; 3:38 PM ET |
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