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» NYTimes Editorial Board Endorses Prop. 8 Mormon-Financing Investigation
The New York Times voiced its support for an investigation by The California Fair Political Practices Commission into whether or not the Mormon Church illegally contributed funds to the Prop. 8 campaign, saying "Churches, which risk their tax-exempt status if they endorse candidates, have more leeway in referendum campaigns. Still, when they enter the political fray, they have the same obligation to follow the rules that nonreligious groups do." [NYT] |
» No Surprise.
The New York Times' editorial team endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama: "As tough as the times are, the selection of a new president is easy. After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States." [NY Times] |
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First, we had John McCain-supporter Melissa Neese, a Georgia woman whose All Hallow's Eve spectacle featured the "shadow of death" standing behind Barack Obama. Then, after inspiring "surprising" outrage, Ms. Neese replaced the macabre character with another figure the right finds frightening: Hillary Clinton. Now we find ourselves in Odessa, New York, where a man named Ron Havens erected this set-up: a KKK-hooded McCain running after Barack Obama, an image that's pretty objectionable. McCain may have inadvertently fueled racist sentiment last week, and opposed Martin Luther King Day, but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he's not a member of the KKK. |
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We couldn't have said it better ourselves… |
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She is now a No. 1 New York Times best-selling author. On Sept. 14, her book, sTORI Telling, will move into first place on the prestigious newspaper's non-fiction list. |
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Longtime copy editor Charles Cretella has been suspended for two weeks after allegedly sexually harassing a newer hire. But Cretella claims he's getting the shaft - and now he's suing: [Cretella], a part-time copy editor who's been with the Gray Lady since 1968, was suspended for two weeks without pay for inappropriate behavior toward a new hire, a 33-year-old man, according to papers filed last week in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Cretella claims the other employee subjected him to heavy doses of harassment, like the aforementioned crotch grabbing, which went on for twenty minutes. Cretella's suit alleges that by overlooking him, the Times discriminated against him for his age and "perceived sexual orientation." |
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While we're not about to shell out $130 for pre-cut pants, we whole-heartedly agree with a reader's summation of photographer Dean Isidro's accompanying slide show, "Who's the smoldering model?… I'm going to be thinking dirty things all day today…" We could spend all morning on those calves along! |
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Picking up soon after his mother's death, Assisted Loving chronicles former New York Times columnist Bob Morris' struggle to find his eager beaver father a date. Surely trolling personal ads for one's father can take a toll, but, after all the arguments and aborted missions and, yes, his own dating misadventures, Morris finally learned to love his father. And, really, that's what this book's about: learning to love a parent - and yourself - as you look toward at times bleak future. Morris recently sat down with our editor to discuss how this experience helped him come of age, the ethics of memoir writing and how his father led him toward his own relationship. |
» Mr. Manners
Gay renaissance man Philip Galanes will helm the New York Times' new etiquette column. And he's got quite the resume: "[Galanes] may not be a household name, it is difficult to imagine someone more primed to write about social mores alongside the sociological trivia, careerist self-revelation and spectator-sport consumption of that section. Galanes is twice graduated from Yale, was an entertainment lawyer at white-shoe firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, has two novels to his name and dabbles as an interior designer." Slacker. [WWD via College OTR] |
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» Money Trail.
Of the seventeen New York Times staffers who have made (potentially unethical) political donations this season, the majority favor Barack Obama, who received $4,072. Hillary Clinton, who the paper endorsed, only received $500. [Petrelis Files] |
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Instead of railing against the NY Times for their lengthy piece on young gay marriage, anti-gay activist Albert Mohler, who previously pondered homo genetic cleansing, offers a fairly measured, moderate reflection: "Young Gay Rites" is itself a noteworthy signal about the future of marriage. If [author Benoit] Denizet-Lewis is right, the legalization of same-sex marriage is changing the ways some homosexuals are living their lives. In other words, same-sex marriage in Massachusetts is changing homosexual culture in some unexpected ways. |
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David Barstow's penned a mammoth article this weekend on how White House and Pentagon officials deployed new networks' "military analysts" to spread state-sponsored propaganda. And it's pretty startling… |
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» Piss, Eat.
The New York Times' Andrew Jacobs and Dan Levin prove that the couple who report together, stay together. Especially when it's on the paper's nickel. [Gawker] |
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What's the most interesting thing about this New York Times review of new gay surfer movie Shelter? CONTINUED » |
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"Building culture is always a human endeavor."
With his colleagues at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which he joined in 1997, Renfro has worked or continues to work on some of fair city's most exciting projects the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural District, Lincoln Center and the High Line: a once-abandoned train track known for eye-popping interaction between industry and nature. Our editor recently sit down with Renfro in his firm's 11th Avenue office. Read what Renfro has to say about New York's fluid cultural identity, eco living and how he uses gentrification for good - after the jump, of course. |