Example sentences for: wolff

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  • (More full disclosure: Microsoft publishes Slate .) The Washington Post ? Ready for fleecing when it invests in NetGuide . Wolff admits only one person into his circle of virtue: Former Time Warner new media chief Walter Isaacson, who has since ascended to the editorship of Time . Isaacson's genius was that he understood the Web's potential but was smart enough to leave the new media division early.

  • But Slate 's Jack Shafer disparages widespread comparisons of Burn Rate to Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker and attacks what he deems Wolff's disingenuousness: "[B]y repeatedly reminding the reader of what a dishonest, scheming little shit he is, he seeks to inflate his credibility."

  • The Washington Post 's Jonathan Yardley defends his attack on Kathryn Harrison's incest memoir against novelist Tobias Wolff's claims that he was motivated by his animus toward memoir as a genre: "The truth, as opposed to Wolff's self-serving fantasy, is that my objections to 'The Kiss' have absolutely nothing to do with its being a memoir per se, or even with its being one of those 'personal writings that have recently found favor with readers.

  • To Wolff's all-knowing smirk, CMP pulls the plug on the NetGuide concept a couple of years later, after having dropped tens of millions on it.

  • Given Wolff's transparent contempt for his industry, his business partners, his end users, and his colleagues--actually, everybody but his wife and Isaacson--it's a miracle he got as far in the Internet business as he did.


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