Why I'm Thrilled Baseball Is Over
Laura Bennett was trained as an architect but has since established her career as a fashion designer by becoming a finalist on Season 3 of Bravo's Project Runway. Bennett lives amid complete chaos in New York City with her husband and six children, Cleo, 20, Peik, 13, Truman, 10, Pierson, 6, Larson, 5, and Finn, 2.
The end of the World Series has Laura Bennett excited not about the New York Yankees' victory, but about the return of Glee and nights with her husband-and no more watching grown men spitting in high definition.
Tunku Varadarajan, the canny opinion editor at Forbes.Com, published an excellent and insightful essay by Eckart Woertz, of the Gulf Research Institute in Dubai. At a time when it's fashionable to write off Dubai, once the poster city fo...
Pranay Gupte is a veteran foreign correspondent, columnist, editor, and has produced countless documentaries. He is the author or editor of 10 books; his newest book is Global Emirates: An Anthology of Tolerance and Enterprise.
Dubai or Bust
Sharon Waxman is the author of the recently-released book Loot, an award-winning journalist, and a former correspondent for The New York Times. Waxman is the editor-in-chief of her blog, Waxword, and is preparing the launch of a new online news network covering entertainment, The Wrap News, in January 2009. Her current book, Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World, will be published by Times Books in November 2008.
As America goes broke, celebrities like Madonna, Christina Aguilera, and Meg Ryan are seeking out gigs in oil-rich cities like Abu Dhabi.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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