With Sleuthing and Satellite Images, Mr. Melvin Fills the Blanks on a Secretive Nation’s Map
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Think Again: Child Soldiers
What human rights activists never tell you about young killers.
My Address—and Apology—to Yale
Christopher Buckley wishes Yale graduates every success as they enter that never-ending graduate school called life.
Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
Why does Google even need a chief economist? The simplest reason is that the company is an economy unto itself. The ad auction, marinated in that special sauce, is a seething laboratory of fiduciary forensics, with customers ranging from giant multinationals to dorm-room entrepreneurs, all billed by the world’s largest micropayment system.
Jon Peters: A Book Proposal
“It should be called ‘Dickhead.’ Why the former Sony Pictures mogul’s proposal sets a new low.”
Mother and Son, Wars and Recipes
War correspondent Matt McAllester fled into the fields of battle to escape an alcoholic, mentally ill mother. In his memoir, Bittersweet, he tries to make amends with her, in the kitchen.
Heeeere’s . . . Conan!!!
On a chilly Thursday night in late January, four weeks from his last show as host of “Late Night,” Conan O’Brien was strumming a guitar behind his beat-up desk in his cluttered office at Rockefeller Center, figuring out how to say goodbye. After 16 years and 2,725 shows, O’Brien would be moving, along with almost […]
