Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it.
— Tina Brown
Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.
Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.
Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.
Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.
I don't actually go to newsstands anymore.
Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.
CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.
'Wingnuts' is the first book bearing the imprint of Beast Books.
Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections.
For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be vice president sent her over the deep end almost immediately. She went off on a ferocious spending spree that might have killed a lesser woman. Katie Couric's straightforward questions unraveled her.
Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.
Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: 'Change you can believe in.' What happened to him?
Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.
Does Obama create confusion on purpose?
Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.
Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter.
There is nobody more boring than the undefeated.
Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work.
It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.
I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna.
Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.
It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.
It's actually harder than it looks to be a good pundit on the air. You've got to have stuff to say.
What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity.
I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.
Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.
Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'
Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all?
Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days.
There is nothing radical about Obama except the fact of who he is.
Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.
I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.
A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'
American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.
The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.'
The digital explosion has been so explosive.
'The Daily Beast' and Howard Kurtz have parted company.
Servility always curdles into rage in the end.
Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks.
The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media.
By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.'
Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul?
Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.
The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.
Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.
The Duke of York has never remarried.
Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.
