Setting: Brunch. Me: I don’t get it. Why does everyone hate Tina Brown? Lauren, exasperatedly twirling hair: People don’t like powerful women, Maud. Say it with me now.

Tina Brown’s web venture, The Daily Beast, takes its name from Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop. I’m excited.


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