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The 75 Best People in the World Buzz up! There are many more do-gooders, but these particular men and women — because of their talent, achievements, virtue, and two other essential qualifications (having to do with puppies and drinking) — make us happy Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/best-people-1009#ixzz0SGRR1wGk Janet Napolitano She's wrestling with the biggest mess in government: the Department of Homeland Security. And she has the best smile in the Cabinet. Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/best-people-1009#ixzz0SGRItZRx

The Other Public Option: In Search of Better Health Care Abroad Buzz up! Lessons from medical tourism provide a wake-up call in the aftermath of "You lie!": We're worried about offering insurance to Mexicans, but it's Mexico that wants to give us its best medical care. It's not just Joe Wilson who thinks illegal aliens might get health insurance if we — God forbid! — extend health insurance to all Americans. A lot of people do, apparently. So as Max Baucus and Co. begin work today to find more ways to kill the public option ("Who's really supporting it, other...

Todd Palin Is the Man for America Now Buzz up! His eighteen-year-old daughter is about to go into labor; his future son-in-law's mother was just busted for dealing OxyContin; his snowmachine still isn't ready for the two-thousand-mile Iron Dog race; little Trig needs to be changed; Willow needs to be picked up from school; his wife won't be home for hours; and now, for some reason, Wasilla PD is banging on the door. But fear not. He can handle this.

LONDON (AFP) – Prince Charles has beaten off competition from US President Barack Obama to be named the world's best dressed man by Esquire magazine. "He is perfectly turned out in a double-breasted suit. Admirably, the prince keeps his wardrobe in appropriate style: we're told he has a room laid out like a tailor's shop," the men's magazine said.No... No... Nooooo!!! This can't be! Everyone knows Obama is the most handsome man/omnipotent being the world has ever known! How dare Esquire Magazine, how dare them... Oh, also, who gives a flying rat's butt who Esquire says is the best dressed...

Sarah Palin: What I've Learned The full-length version of our controversial interview with Alaska's governor (first excerpted here last month) reveals the former vice-presidential candidate's perspective on John McCain's choices, her daughter's marriage, God's guidance, and her perceived "hotness." UPDATE: Scroll down for Web-only quotes on wisecracks, American priorities, and more. http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/sarah-palin-interview-0309?src=digg

To see why Tuesday's "retirement" of Navy Adm. William "Fox" Fallon as head of U.S. Central Command is good news, all you have to do is look at the Esquire profile that brought about his downfall. Its author, Thomas P.M. Barnett, a former professor at the Naval War College, presents a fawning portrait of the admiral -- a service he previously performed for Donald Rumsfeld. But evidence of Fallon's supposed "strategic brilliance" is notably lacking. For example, Barnett notes Fallon's attempt to banish the phrase "the Long War" (created by his predecessor) because it "signaled a long haul that Fallon...

One of Us, Part 1http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0806MCCAIN_94 ..... The way it felt yesterday, the way it will feel again next week, when his immigration bill will pass, when, after his colleagues vote in favor of cloture -- in favor of limiting further debate and voting on this difficult, tempestuous thing -- he will stand in front of a gang of reporters alongside an unlikely coalition: senators Graham, Specter, Martinez, and Obama, shoulder to shoulder, and they will heap the praise on him that the students of the New School and hundreds of angry citizens on his office phones did not. And from...

I often wondered what exactly makes a FReeper a FReeper? Is it the simple act of reading articles on FR? Do you have to post articles or replies? To call yourself a FReeper do you need to engage in effective activism like writing letters to politicians, getting out in the street to carry signs, or, is being a FReeper an attitude. If so, what attitude is that? Knock yourself out.

See the pic here http://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/john-edwards-esq/

Katie Couric: 'My God, I'm So Boring' Katie Couric says the job of anchoring the "CBS Evening News” is "a little harder than I thought it would be.” In an interview for the January issue of Esquire magazine, Couric also says she feels "in a bit of a box,” and complains that "some people out there are rooting for me to fail.” Couric noted that Esquire itself criticized her after her September debut: "You guys even take a shot at me. You have something in the November issue, something about how since I’ve become an anchor you don’t know me...

A journalist who interfered with a 2004 mountain lion hunt in Sabino Canyon was sentenced last week to less than one day in jail. John H. Richardson, a writer-at-large for Esquire magazine, pleaded guilty to one count of interfering with a forest officer. He was sentenced June 5, according to a U.S. Attorney's Office news release. Richardson, 51, was arrested in March 2004 with two animal activists associated with Earth First. At that time, Sabino Canyon was closed while authorities tried to capture several mountain lions. The activists, Rodney Coronado, 39, and Matt Crozier, 33, were each convicted of one...

In June of 1999 a writer calling himself Nasdijj emerged from obscurity to publish an ode to his adopted son in Esquire. “My son is dead,” he began. “I didn’t say my adopted son is dead. He was my son. My son was a Navajo. He lived six years. They were the best six years of my life.” The boy’s name was Tommy Nothing Fancy and Nasdijj wrote that he and his wife adopted Tommy as an infant and raised him in their home on the Navajo reservation. At first, Tommy seemed like a healthy baby, albeit one who consistently...

He's a Texas lawman. Next question: Then why are House majority leader Tom Delay,the Republican party, and some of the biggest corporations in the country so afraid of him? Today started with lawyers for a big-shot Washington fundraiser and a couple of large corporations who showed up in court for a quick legal version of whining and moaning, asking for a continuance until...well, never would be good. Then he had three quick staff meetings to plot his strategy for climbing the ladder of evidence to Tom DeLay, the most powerful and vindictive man in Congress. Now an assistant comes in...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - He may be leader of the free world and Time magazine's "Person of the Year," but a new international survey of women makes certain that President Bush is far from being the sexiest man alive. In a recent online poll conducted by Esquire magazine, 11,000 women in 15 countries were asked to rate Bush's sex appeal on a scale of one to 10, and America's commander-in-chief failed to register much more than a two. Women in Australia, Germany and the Netherlands were the harshest judges of George W.'s sexual allure, giving him an average rating of...

Esquire apology heartens Buckley For William F. Buckley Jr. - who waged, with Gore Vidal, one of the last century's more famous literary feuds - victory is sweeter the second time around. Yesterday, 79-year-old Buckley was crowing over Esquire magazine's abjectly apologetic "Open Letter" in the February issue, saying the mag "greatly regrets" including an old Vidal polemic, "A Distasteful Encounter With William F. Buckley Jr.," in a recent anthology. When the Vidal essay was originally printed in 1969 - after the two debaters exchanged televised insults during the raucous 1968 Democratic convention - Buckley successfully sued the magazine for...

Journalist Ron Suskind is one-stop shopping for Bush administration castaways. But what if John DiIulio -- Suskind gave him a platform in Esquire magazine in 2002 to call the administration "the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis" -- and Paul O'Neill had been shopping a conservative critique of Bush? Would Suskind have cracked open his notebook? Not likely. Few events excite liberal journalists more than the inevitable defection of an "insider" from a Republican administration, provided that the defector is a liberal who is telling the media what it wants to hear. What interests the Suskinds are not conservative defectors but...

I CAN SEE from the Daily News' Friday editorial ("A Penn professor gets a lesson from Bush") that you are puzzled, dismayed and disappointed by my statements of last Monday concerning the Esquire magazine article. You may not like or accept my reasons, but I will give them. Sixteen months ago, I left the White House after serving the half-year I publicly said I would when I took the job. I stayed just long enough to complete the only task at which I had any special skill, namely "Unlevel Playing Field," a study exploring how government discriminates against grassroots religious...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Politics and re-election concerns rule the White House at the expense of good public policy, says a former aide to President Bush. Not so, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Monday, dismissing comments from John J. DiIulio as ``baseless and groundless.''DiIulio issued two statements, the first generally standing by his criticism, the second - similar to Fleischer's comment - calling his own allegations ``groundless and baseless due to poorly chosen words and examples.''DiIulio, a Democrat who led the White House office of faith-based initiatives until August 2001, said in an interview with Esquire magazine: ``There is no...

In a poll in its annual “Women We Love” issue, Esquire magazine named Leonardo DiCaprio Hollywood’s most “womanish” man. Lovely Leo easily trounced juicy Justin Timberlake and beauteous Brad Pitt for the title of celebritydom’s most womanly man.

Just in case the above link stops working in the future, I found the Ron Reagan essay in Esquire magazine cross posted in it's entirety to quite a few newsgroups: Essay Or: Essay Related thread here: RON REAGAN RIPS BUSH IN ESQUIRE ESSAY

The Case for George W. Bush i.e., what if he's right? by Tom Junod | Aug 01 '04 Page 1 of 3 It happened again this morning. I saw a picture of our president—my president—and my feelings about him were instantly rekindled. The picture was taken after his speech to the graduating seniors at the Air Force Academy. He was wearing a dark suit, a light-blue tie, and a white shirt. His unsmiling visage was grim and purposeful, in pointed contrast to the face of the elaborately uniformed cadet standing next to him, which was lit up with a cocky...

<p>WHILE men the world over drooled over the latest cover of Esquire, which featured Britney Spears mimicking a famed 1966 Angie Dickinson photo, Spears herself was livid. Sources say the singer - who appears in less and less clothing with each successive magazine cover - was "humiliated" by her bottom-baring pose, which had her standing sideways in a skin-tight sweater and white stilettos. The photo was shot by James White for Esquire's "70 Years of Women We Love" issue. "Britney thinks the pictures are too naked and is really angry at Esquire," a magazine insider said. "But really, is she out of her mind? I mean, her brother was at the shoot. Exploited? Is she crazy? Look at the photos she has done for everyone else. The Rolling Stone cover was practically naked, too - but she wasn't exploited by them?" Relations between Esquire and Spears have been frosty ever since editor David Granger thought he had an exclusive on the pop tart - and then she posed for other magazines without telling him. A rep for Spears declined comment.</p>

<p>Esquire killed Jayson Blair's first writing assignment since The New York Times scandal because Blair's notoriety is old news, the magazine said yesterday. Blair, 27, was hired by Esquire to write a review of a movie based on "Shattered Glass," a story by another disgraced journalist, Stephen Glass.</p>

Esquire Cancels Writing Assignment by Former New York Times Reporter Who Plagiarized The Associated Press Published: Aug 8, 2003 NEW YORK (AP) - Esquire has canceled a movie review it commissioned former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair to write, the magazine said Friday. Blair, who resigned from the Times after editors learned he had embellished and plagiarized parts of dozens of reports, was to have reviewed "Shattered Glass," a film about another journalist found to have fabricated stories, Stephen Glass. David Granger, editor in chief of the 68-year-old men's magazine, said Esquire reversed its decision after news of Blair's...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Disgraced journalist Jayson Blair, who resigned from The New York Times over his fraudulent reporting, has been commissioned to write a magazine review of a film about another famed media fraud. Blair has been commissioned by Esquire to write a movie review of "Shattered Glass," a film about Stephen Glass, who admittedly made up sources and whole stories while a staff writer at The New Republic, the magazine confirmed on Friday. "We thought it was a clever way to do a movie review, to have the most infamous fabricator review another infamous fabricator," said Esquire editor-in-chief...

<p>July 25, 2003 -- Jayson Blair is getting back into the journalism game already.</p> <p>The disgraced former New York Times reporter has landed two plum assignments, one from Esquire and another from Jane.</p> <p>He'll be reviewing the new Stephen Glass movie for Esquire and writing about workplace pressures for Jane.</p>

The disgraced former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair will review a movie profiling another journalist who was exposed as a serial fabricator for men's magazine Esquire, a spokesman for the magazine said. AFP/NYT-HO/File Photo Blair has been commissioned to write an 800-word review of "Shattered Glass," the story of Stephen Glass, a one-time staff writer for the New Republic and freelancer for titles such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but he left the current events and policy magazine under a...

Esquire Magazine's August edition features some revealing photographs of the 2004 Democratic Presidential contenders in what they consdier their natural elements, but the good editors at the magazine were smart enough to know that it would take more sizzle to attract readers.That may explain why they slapped a picture of actress Jennifer Lopez --clad in a bikini--on the cover.J-Lo's pinup shot leads readers into the features about the candidates, in which Sen. John Kerry is photographed in his Washington townhouse, talking on the phone while his wife Teresa, sits perched on his wingback chair with a cup of tea in...

The flap over former Bush White House adviser John DiIulio's cutting criticisms of his former colleagues, followed by his earnest, near-groveling apology — all stemming from a still-to-be-published article in the January issue of Esquire magazine — has obscured another, perhaps more newsworthy aspect of the story.In the piece, a preview of which is available on Esquire's website, DiIulio ridicules the "Mayberry Machiavellis" in the White House, whom he defined, in a letter to the writer Ron Suskind, as the "staff, senior and junior, who consistently talked and acted as if the height of political sophistication consisted in reducing...

FORMER TOP WHITE HOUSE AIDE TURNS ON ROVE; CLAIMS ALL DECISIONS ARE POLITICIZED An article in upcoming editions of ESQUIRE magazine quotes a former top aide at the White House as saying there is a void of substantive policy-making within the Bush administration. The former aide claims all decisions are politicized by Bush's top adviser Karl Rove, and that the policy staff is afraid to confront him. Fancy media outlets are prepping stories on the ESQUIRE effort, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. Impacting Monday...

Johnny Carson kept much of America laughing for 30 years. As the host of The Tonight Show, he ruled the late night airwaves with a rapier wit and a guest list that wouldn’t stop. Carson gracefully retired about a decade ago, and has stayed pretty much out of the public eye. That ends this week, as Esquire magazine publishes an extended interview with him. On Monday the Drudge Report carried an exclusive about the article. In it, Carson criticizes Fox Broadcasting for being excessively patriotic in its coverage of this year’s Super Bowl. Johnny is quoted: "It’s nice to live...