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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
So Elizabeth Holmes is now in jail. I remember some years ago she was profiled in TNY when she first came out with her Theranos fraud.
serious crayons:
Profiled without the writer knowing it was fraud? Bummer.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 31, 2023, 11:29:35 am ---So Elizabeth Holmes is now in jail. I remember some years ago she was profiled in TNY when she first came out with her Theranos fraud.
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 31, 2023, 01:06:58 pm ---Profiled without the writer knowing it was fraud? Bummer.
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She had everyone bamboozled. I've been wondering if TNY would be doing some sort of follow-up. So far, no. Maybe after she's been in jail for a while. Or not.
One of the "procedurals"--it may have been the reboot of Law & Order--had an episode that was clearly inspired by the Holmes case. Everything was there: A woman running a huge company that was a scam, then trying to claim she was an abused woman. Being L&O, they added a murder into the mix, but everything else just screamed Elizabeth Holmes.
serious crayons:
I liked the May 29 Shouts and Murmurs by Simon Rich. It's not hilarious, but it's poignant -- told from the perspective of a Participation Trophy, which has a metaphorical meaning as well.
I looked up Simon Rich and he looks shockingly young -- like, 17 -- but is actually 38. He has written a bunch of books. He has an older brother who has ALSO written a bunch of books. And their father is the longtime NYT columnist Frank Rich, who has ALSO written a bunch of books as well as produced some award-winning TV series, including the recent Succession.
But then it got even weirder, at least to me. The wife of Frank Rich is a NYT columnist who has ALSO written some books. He is 73; she is 33.
My former governor and his wife, married a few years ago, are about those same ages. However, the ex-governor is one of the richest people in the state; heir to a department-store fortune.
Of course, Frank Rich is also Rich. :laugh:
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 11, 2023, 01:18:58 pm ---
There is so much more in that issue that I want to read, such as the articles about Paul Schrader, Jackie Kennedy, and Waco.
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I went back to read the Waco article in the May 8 (Coronation) issue. The author, Daniel Immerwahr, places the roots of the violent 1990s in the fallout from the Vietnam War, and cites the debut of "Cops" in 1989 and "Law & Order" in 1990, for feeding into that strain of violence. Also in that timeframe was an act of Congress allowing unlicensed hobbyists to sell weapons at gun shows, and firearm sales nearly doubled between 1987 and 1993.
Excited to see our Dave Cullen quoted in the article about bombs the Columbine killers planted. Luckily they didn't go off, or 500 people might have died.
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