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• Even MORE Orozco

  
  Carol Diehl's Art Vent — Authority: 112
  Peter Schjeldahl, " Man of the World: A Gabriel Orozco retrospective ," The New Yorker, December 21 & 28, 2009, pp. 146-7: Orozco’s patient remark in their [his paintings’] defense gives me pause: “People forget that I want to disappoint.” That strategy, targeting “the expectations of the one ...
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• Ex-tabloid editor says Tiger Woods missed chances to refocus media

  
  The Editors' Desk — Authority: 125
  Identifying himself as a golf nut and former tabloid news editor — he was a senior editor at the New York Post in the ’90s — John Cassidy writes on the New Yorker web site that Tiger Woods totally mismanaged media…
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• Atlanta in the year-end lists: How’d we do?

  
  Crib Notes — Authority: 505
  Kudos to Bradford Cox, Gucci Mane, Mastodon and Pill
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• McSweeney’s #7

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 127
  SOUNDTRACK : BLACK SABBATH-Sabotage (1975). Sabotage seems to be somewhat forgotten (maybe because of the creepy cover art 0f Ozzy in a kimono and fascinating platform shoes, Bill Ward in red tights with a codpiece (and visible underwear on the back cover), and Geezer and Tony’s mustaches). But this album ...
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• Ice Cream Diplomacy

  
  From the Front — Authority: 117
  In the early 1970’s I had the excellent experience of living and growing up for a couple of years  in Mexico.  When we moved there, I hit the North American trifecta — as I was born in Canada and had been living in the United States. Being exposed to a very different culture at an early age (I was eleven ...
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• Video: The New Yorker Festival 2009

  
  New Yorker Festival — Authority: 92
  Here is a recap of this year’s New Yorker Festival, featuring interviews with festival participants, New Yorker writers, and audience members.
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• Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Becomes the World’s First Double Platinum Holiday Ringtone

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 449
  Mariah Carey’s contemporary yuletide classic “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” has become the first seasonal ringtone to cross the RIAA Double Platinum mark in recognition of sales of more than two million units. “Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ has become one of the essential ...
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• BREAKING: New Yorker’s Tad Friend Names Tad Friend Greatest Author Ever

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 143
  Today, the New Yorker’s many contributors, editors, staffers, BFFs, etc., listed their most enjoyable reads of the year . Nothing too groundbreaking: David Remnick went with Updike, as well as “autobiographies by Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin,” which the ...
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• Helen Simpson–”Diary of an Interesting Year” (New Yorker, December 21 & 28, 2009)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 127
  SOUNDTRACK: The Believer July/August 2009 Music Issue Compilation CD: “Fantastic and Spectacular” (2009). After the globe-spanning CD in last year’s issue, the 2009 Believer CD returns to the dominant musical style of the first few.  This disc is a collection of unreleased, acoustic songs from the ...
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• Memo to Atul Gawande: The Agricultural Revolution Contributed to our Healthcare Crisis

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 549
  In last week’s New Yorker, an article entitled Testing, Testing , written by Atul Gawande, details the author’s optimistic perspective on the Senate’s new health care bill. Gawande highlights and applauds the bill’s inclusion of pilot programs reminiscent of those responsible for transforming American ...
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• Challenge: Connect Random Stuff in My Head to the Magazine

  
  Emdashes — Authority: 427
  Martin Schneider writes: Oh boy, my favorite parlor game.... also called "How Emdashes generates posts." 1. Last night I saw Jason Reitmans movie Up in the Air, and I enjoyed it very much. It certainly did seem like a movie that teed up its subject perfectly and then whacked it, which Im not sure is quite the ...
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• Invictus Tidbits: Covering the 1995 World Cup; and The New Yorker Takes a Closer Look

  
  Penguin SA — Authority: 125
  Journalist Alexandra Zavis covered the 1995 Rugby World Cup, as part of her wider reporting on South Africa’s transition to democracy. She remembers “the moment” in the final match that John Carlin’s book and Clint Eastwood’s film capture so powerfully - and she also provides 15 years’ worth of ...
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• Sung by Libby Holman

  
  The Muffyoglb — Authority: 124
  Awww, I just love these slang-filled, over-alliterative 30s record advertisements from Brunswick . Happy Because Im in Love -- What a kiss can do to this mean, moanin mamma! Lurid Libby admits a loss of reason in this--the confession of a conquered coquette. More Than You Know -- Heres Libby giving some gent a ...
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• Non-Holiday Holiday Reading

  
  Running After My Hat — Authority: 120
  I had occasion recently to hunt down a story by James Thurber which I hadn’t read in *counting*… uh, many years. But the first time I “read” it, I didn’t actually read it: I heard it, read aloud, by my seventh-grade English teacher.The story itself has nothing to do with Christmas or even winter (as [...]
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• 1,639: vintage new yorker ad of the day

  
  JB's Warehouse & Curio Emporium — Authority: 116
  This ad for a popular 1950s swimwear designer delighted quite a few websurfers when it was posted on Flickr. Chalk it up to the simple, classy style the ad designer used, or the hints of mischief emanating from the models face. As for what a New York shopper could have done to amuse themselves after purchasing a ...
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• Top Ten China Myths of 2009

  
  The nomadic reporter — Authority: 117
  Just a few China myths for you, courtesy of the New Yorker… My favorite? “The Internet might be censored but it can never be rolled back in China” and “China is a land of no siblings.” (People always ask about that one). Read more:  ...
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• REAL Estate

  
  Kevin Charnas — Authority: 131
  The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche (Thanks for the quote, Don! Its a keeper.) ...
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• Medical Insights with Dr. A. Gawande

  
  Along The Way — Authority: 112
  Fascinating reading is available in two books by Dr. Atul Gawande I’ve read during the past couple of years I am finally briefly reviewing here. I was reminded of my intent to share my impressions of this author’s writing and books when I read “Health Care Reform Revelation” at “Time Goes By” ...
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• On the Origins of Management Science

  
  The Dunedin School — Authority: 524
  As has been noted here in the past,and more than once , by other members of this site, business-inspired organisational models based on esoteric ideas like ‘performance’ and ‘results’ have permeated and even come to define the contemporary university, much for the worse of everyone involved.  We know it ...
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• Turns Out I’M Santa Claus

  
  1979 Semi-Finalist... — Authority: 484
  From the latest issue of The New Yorker…I totally feel like that Santa Claus is me, all curmudgeonly and ready for payback.  Or maybe it’s just been one of those days…
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