Barry Scheck Blowing Smoke In Your Face
We are truly in a fun house of justice, a kind of deconstructed reality where everyone brings to the trial his or her own story, and the media fan the flames so high and hot that every Dick and Jane...
View ArticleManilow and Matzoh Balls: Dershowitz Lowers the Bar
In Search of American Jewish Culture , by Stephen J. Whitfield. University Press of New England, 307 pages, $26. Just Revenge , by Alan M. Dershowitz. Warner Books, 322 pages, $29.95. Reading In Search...
View ArticleState’s Lost Glory Is Gone for Good
New York's political classes, a group that includes all manner of soothsayers, layabouts and long-lunchers, have decided that the New York primary really, really counts for something this year. This,...
View ArticleFaith Flickers in the Burbs, Spiritual Pulse Is Faint
The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance by Benjamin Anastas. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 277 pages, $24. If books were shelved according to the cadence of their titles rather than by the...
View ArticleLove Jamaica? Life and Debt A Must See Film. Ralph Lauren, Bob Pittman Should...
Sometime in the 17th century, there developed the notorious "Triangle Trade": rum and shoddy goods from New England to Africa; slaves from Africa to what would become the Old Confederacy; tobacco,...
View ArticleAt National Academy, Rather Calm Rendition Of Our Great Storms
Almost everyone has a story to tell about being caught in a storm, and accounts of storms are as variable as the people who recall them. My own earliest memory of a storm goes back to the 1938...
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Where I Ate in ’05: Dining Out Narrows Down City’s Best Bites
In the past year, I’ve visited nearly 100 restaurants, eaten at least a dozen tuna tartares, over 20 plates of “crudo,” a flock of organic chickens, God knows how many pounds of grass-fed beef, and...
View ArticleWhere I Ate in ’05: Dining Out Narrows Down City’s Best Bites
In the past year, I’ve visited nearly 100 restaurants, eaten at least a dozen tuna tartares, over 20 plates of “crudo,” a flock of organic chickens, God knows how many pounds of grass-fed beef, and...
View ArticleNew England Realignment?
If you're sick of the endless comparisons between 2006 and 1994, read no further. But one underlooked aspect of the '94 GOP revolution may be playing out this year too: Regional realignment. Yes, Bill...
View ArticleNew England Massacre
If you're sick of the endless comparisons between 2006 and 1994, read no further. But indications point to a regional realignment tomorrow on the same order as that Republican revolution 12 years ago....
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