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People here at TIME, like most people in the news business, are obsessed with originality. We'd murder to find something "fresh" to write about. So it's admittedly a bit odd that we chose Andy Delbanco as America's best social critic. He is a historian of American literature, a man who looks back for a living, who reads and rereads, even in middle age, books like Moby-Dick and poems by Walt Whitman, stuff most of us leave behind after 11th grade...
...Washington Post as a copy editor. Four years ago, an editor lamented to Hax that she was being forced to take on an advice column. I could do that, Hax replied, and banged out a few sample columns that won over her bosses. Hax says her goal is to write the things your friends, neighbors and relatives would say frankly the first time rather than delicately 30 times over if they didn't have to live with you. Indeed, the only people Hax says she doesn't advise are her own family and friends. But with advice as good...
Heim and Murphy, veterans of FORTUNE 500 companies, say they decided to write the book when they realized that "women consistently failed to support other women and even actively undermined their authority and credibility...
...will be fraught with rivalry and dysfunction, because women often betray and undermine one another. (Think Linda Tripp.) "Without fail, in 20 years of conducting conferences and workshops about gender differences in business, almost every participant we've encountered has acknowledged that women damage other women's career aspirations," write authors Pat Heim and Susan Murphy, with Susan Golant, of In the Company of Women: Turning Workplace Conflict into Powerful Alliances (Tarcher/Putnam...
...List subscribers got nearly 40 e-mails this week with subject headings such as “American flag,” “Worried about what the flag means, I’ll tell you,” and “Crimes against Humanity...NOT war...write to Congress...