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College loans a rallying point in Occupy protests
November 10th, 2011
It is accepted wisdom that Occupy Wall Street has too many diverse concerns to be tied to a single catalyst for the movement. The New York Times has suggested that the sole common thread among the occupiers is “anger.” But an alternative common thread might be the ubiquity of student debt. Read more »
The Week
Of Cool Air and Fire
October 20th, 2011
The Indy cars were just 11 laps into the 200-lap race when the weekend shattered. On a track that racer Danica Patrick had earlier described as “friggin fast,” a single swerve turned into a 15-car, 220-mph crash. In an instant, Dan Wheldon’s black-and-white No. 77 open-wheel racer was airborne and in flames. Wheldon was flown to University Medical Center. His death was announced at 2:20 p.m. He was a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner with blue eyes and a ready smile and a sense of proportion about the meaning of glory and fame. Read more »
Dispatch
The Occupation of Los Angeles
In a city of dreamers, the people speak
October 13th, 2011
Somewhere between 1,000 and 4,000 protesters, depending on which news source you prefer, assembled on Saturday, Oct. 1, at Pershing Square in Los Angeles (not exactly a brand-name landmark) and marched a mile or so to City Hall. This was part of the nationwide wave of Occupy Wall Street Protests, except we had no place like Wall Street to occupy. Our City Hall building is a lovely beaux arts/classical mash-up on Spring Street, right across from the equally magnificent Los Angeles Times building, whose denizens, not surprisingly, took little notice of what was going on under their noses. Read more »
Politics
Real World Las Vegas: The Republican Episode
October 13th, 2011
Here comes the Las Vegas episode of the best reality show on TV: the Republican presidential debates! We don’t know about you, but 5 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Sands Expo Convention Center can’t come soon enough. Read more »
Romance
The Real Journey Begins
September 29th, 2011
It took them more than five months on the road to get here, but Joseph Crist and Laura Brunett made it intact to their wedding Sept. 24 at Lake Mead’s 33 Hole Overlook. After leaving their home in Canton, Mich., on April 15, they had walked most of a 2,500-mile route before physical ailments forced them to finish the journey in a Greyhound bus. Read more »
Fever Pitch
It’s the latest must-have for trendy New Yorkers: a start-up of one’s own
September 29th, 2011
Start-up fever! Whether it’s due to The Social Network or the new wave of billion-dollar tech IPOs, lately it seems like everyone has a start-up. The start-up mythology—build fast, get cash, save the world—and the low barrier to entry make it tough to resist. Read more »
Destination Vegas
Hitchin’ a Ride
September 22nd, 2011
Last April, Laura Brunett and Joseph Crist decided to walk from Canton, Mich., to Las Vegas so they could get married Sept. 24 at Lake Mead. Seemed like a good idea at the time ... but The young couple’s shoe-leather journey stalled in Albuquerque, N.M., in July. Read more »
National Newsroom
O-Bummer! Hipsters O-Bandon Obama
The prez gets ditched by Pitchfork.com-wielding< puerile politicos who went the distance in 2008
September 22nd, 2011
Remembering 9/11
The Fall and Everything After
Las Vegas memories of a national tragedy
September 8th, 2011
Mayor Oscar Goodman looked at his television and thought there was a B-movie on before it struck him that this was really happening in our country. He had this feeling of violation—like something very pure and innocent had been sullied by these actions. … Read more »
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Jill Went Up the Hill
No obstacle could keep Abramson from becoming the first female executive editor at The New York Times
August 25th, 2011
After being appointed to executive editor of The New York Times in June, Jill Abramson compared the move to “ascending to Valhalla,” the blissful banquet hall of the Viking afterlife. In Norse mythology, admission to Odin’s golden palace required a mortal to perform feats of strength and acts of bravery in battle—which Abramson’s biography does not lack. She’s taken on hostile lawyers, conniving editors and a refrigerated truck on her way to becoming the first female executive editor in the paper’s 160-year saga. Read more »
