Sridhar Pappu

'A very different nation': The Romneys on life with George and the lesson of his derailed presidential bid:

“Can you imagine if Richard Nixon had not been president?” Mitt Romney said. “Instead it would have been my dad. We wouldn’t have had Watergate. Vietnam would have been handled in a different way and I think it would have been a very different nation.”

Bio: Sridhar Pappu has written for The New York Observer, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, New York and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.

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'A very different nation': The Romneys on life with George and the lesson of his derailed presidential bid

“Can you imagine if Richard Nixon had not been president?” Mitt Romney said. “Instead it would have been my dad. We wouldn’t have had Watergate. Vietnam would have been handled in a different way and I think it would have been a very different nation.” More

Posted on January 31st, 2012 11:35am

 
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Can Richard Dare save the Brooklyn Philharmonic?

At 47, Dare comes across a lot like Alec Baldwin’s husky Jack Donaghy from "30 Rock": The businessman with no experience in art who suddenly parachutes in from corporate America into a once proud 154-year-old franchise that has fallen hard. Very hard. He quite literally is the guy in the suit (“It’s the only clothes I own,” he says by way of explanation) amongst a staff that commonly takes off its shoes entirely at work, even with a reporter present.

Dare was explaining how he's going to get the Phil "out of the hole," to use a term he repeats often. Other terms he uses while describing his plan, and what he sees as the future of the ailing nonprofit arts scene: Strategic partnerships. Value. Strangest of all, profitability. More

Posted on October 27th, 2011 3:26pm

 

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