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Imaginary Eavesdropping on Sarah Palin and Henry Kissinger
Sometime today or tomorrow, Sarah Palin will sit down with Nixon and Ford's former secretary of state. We imagine how that might go down.
Posted 09/23/08 in Daily Intel : Imaginary Conversations
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Sarah Silverman Would Love to Adopt a Chinese Baby
The comedienne reveals a beneficent streak at a charity affair in the Hamptons.
Posted 08/25/08 in Daily Intel : Party Lines
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Olympic Committee Questions Ages of Infant Chinese Gymnasts
The gold-medal-winning girls from the host country certainly didn’t LOOK like they were old enough to be competing, and now there’s mounting Internet evidence that the wee things weren’t 16 after all. Now, can it be proven before China censors it all away?
Posted 08/21/08 in Daily Intel : The Sports Section
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USA Basketball Team in Possible Massage-Related Scandal
A Chinese paper is accusing stars LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Dwyane Wade of soliciting prostitutes — or actually, "female technicians."
Posted 08/04/08 in Daily Intel : The Sports Section
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Guess Who Wrote the ‘Times’ Story About People Getting Married at 8 P.M. on 8/8/08
No, it's not Richard Perez-Pena.
Posted 08/04/08 in Daily Intel : Photo Op
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In China’s New York, Twin Towers Still Standing
Plus the latest from the Federal Reserve, Skadden, Condé Nast, and Warren Buffett, in today's industry report.
Posted 07/08/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Michael Lohan Scares Lindsay Away From Potential Lesbianism for a Day
Also, gossip in Sharon Stone, Harrison Ford, and Mischa Barton in our daily roundup.
Posted 05/30/08 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Eliot Spitzer Saga to Be Made Into Enron-Style Book
Also in our daily industry roundup: No recession! High-end boutiques on the LES! And law professors suing students!
Posted 04/30/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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JPMorgan's Up, GE's Down, and Google's Still Up in the Air
Plus law, real estate, and media news in our daily roundup.
Posted 04/17/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Hillary Clinton Does Not Want George Bush Running Around With Any Torches
To that end, she's called for the president to boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing this summer — and, to her credit, made a passable effort to move the conversation past her loss of pollster Mark Penn.
Posted 04/07/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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Semel Out at Yahoo, Microsoft In?
FINANCE • Courtenay Semel's dad, Terry, is out at Yahoo. And Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for the company might just be déjà vu. [NYT, Deal Journal/WSJ] • Recession-has-already-started watch: The economy lost 17,000 jobs in January, the first time since the lovely tech-crash days of 2003 that total payrolls have shrunk. [Reuters via NYT] • One of the few lucky bankers with a bonus burning a hole in your pocket? Try London restaurant Vivat Bacchus' new "Bonus Tasting Menu" for a mere £1,000. [DealBook/NYT]
Posted 02/01/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Giuliani Gets Prickly Over Client-List Questions
Today's Daily News chronicles Rudy Giuliani's admirable refusal to distance himself from Bernie Kerik: "Sure, there were issues," shrugged the Republican front-runner (we'd say: Kerik is facing federal indictment), before praising Bernie's crime-reduction record. Seriously, people, that's integrity. Hillary Clinton, at this point, would have gone glassy-eyed and said she'd never met the guy. Which makes it all the more surprising that, immediately after defending a thoroughly tainted pal, Rudy blew up at a comparatively innocuous question: Would he release the Bracewell & Giuliani and Giuliani Partners' client lists? "Nobody has ever accused them of doing anything wrong," he repeated. Actually, the News points out, at issue here is not any wrongdoing but basic conflicts of interest. For instance, Bracewell & Giuliani, Rudy's law firm, used to represent Citgo, which is owned by … oh, no … Venezuela.
Posted 11/06/07 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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It's Expensive Being Rupert Murdoch
MEDIA • Did Dow Jones cost Rupert Murdoch an extra $1 billion just because he’s Rupert Murdoch? [Slate] • Rik Hertzberg to blog for The New Yorker. From YearlyKos. And without fact-checking. [WWD] • Doug Henwood feels guilty about enjoying The Nation’s cruise. Because liberals always feel guilty. [The Nation]
Posted 08/03/07 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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‘Times’: Only Murdoch Could Go to China
The Times has the second installment of its Rupert Murdoch–is–a–bad–bad–man series today, this time focusing on his dealings with China and featuring a catchy new rubric: "The Murdochracy." The piece checks in at 2,800 words, and it recaps what you basically already know about Mr. M.: that he's constantly been willing to make concessions to the Chinese government to gain access to the Chinese market. We were going to use the magic of Microsoft Word to AutoSummarize this installment, too, but there's actually one fairly fascinating bit we didn't want to lose to the summation.
Posted 06/26/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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