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We want to live in a world where this type of sentence is never necessary: For the first time, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has chosen a woman as president: Emily Kernan Rafferty, the Met’s current senior vice president for external affairs. We also wouldn’t mind the end of all sentences containing the phrase “for the first time since…”, unless a millenium or so has passed since the last time the event occurred. Hmmm, even in that instance, we advise caution (comets that only come around once every hundred years or so, yes, it will be the first time, but, […]

How would you like it if everywhere you turned, people were discussing you in the past tense. Sort of like, ah, the World-Wide Web, I knew it well, that sort of thing? We believe the death knell for the Web has rung many times (no, you have to do some research on your own; we do not want you to become dependent on us), usually by those who have something to gain from a new, improved system. We’re not naming names, but we recall a certain software giant mentioning the very same thing not too long ago. The cool thing

We celebrate the (apparent/reported/beyond-rumor-stage) acquisition of a major motion picture studio by our former employer (also a major motion picture entity) with a little finance related posting. But first, we’ll take a brief moment to gloat. When we were assured by our former co-workers that this acquisition would not go through, we said (and we paraphrase), “But we read it on the Internet. It must be true.” It is always delightful to be right — especially since we know the additional work will not affect us in our life of leisure*. Now that the confetti has settled, let us say

When authors of a certain stature release new works, profiles inevitably follow. After you’ve read two or three of these, there really is no need to go further. The questions follow a predictable pattern, and the answers? There are only so many ways to to say the same thing over and over. This makes the rare interview that exposes something more about an author all the more exciting to us. Like, oh, this profile of VS Naipaul. While we know you’ll immediately follow the link to read the full article, we pulled out a few of our favorite quotes. Each