we just need to know who reports the news for us...and how they are rewarded. (BTW: I STILL love his new show on CNN interviewing folks outside the US for Opinion and Comment we don't hear from Wolf or MSNBC/FOX.) BUT...we need to know just WHO reports the "McCorporate News" and where they come from that gives THEM an advantage over others.... Be sure to check out Zakaria's Show on Global News at 1:00p.m. on Sundays after Blitzer's war/whore fest of news you "can't use."
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Big Deal
by Gabriel Sherman | September 26, 2004
This article was published in the September 27, 2004, edition of The New York Observer.
One of the most exclusive apartments in Manhattan will soon hit the market—and brokers are waiting with bated breath for what they think will be Manhattan’s next record-breaking sale.
The opulent co-op of the late Laurance Rockefeller at 834 Fifth Avenue, one of the city’s poshest buildings, is about to be listed, according to real-estate sources familiar with the property. And when it does land on the market—at perhaps $40-plus million—sources say it could set a Manhattan co-op price record. That distinction has belonged to Rockefeller properties before: Financier Stephen Schwarzman paid $37 million for Saul Steinberg’s triplex penthouse at 740 Park Avenue in March 2000; that apartment had once belonged to John D. Rockefeller Jr
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Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria recently purchased an Upper West Side townhouse, according to city transfer records. In June, Mr. Zakaria and his wife, Paula Throckmorton Zakaria, purchased the four-story house in the heart of Manhattan’s intellectual enclave—just steps from Columbia University—on West 102nd Street, between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive, for $3.4 million.
The 20-foot-wide residence was listed as being sold by the owners, Kara Grail and Victor Yurkovsky, and first hit the market in November 2002 for $3.5 million. Mr. Zakaria went to contract on the property in May 2004 for $3.4 million, before the deal closed in June.
Mr. Zakaria couldn’t be reached for comment by press time.
The 19th-century home, built by the renowned architect Clarence True, covers 5,000 square feet and has a private outdoor garden and indoor details that include an original mantel over the wood-burning fireplace.
Mr. Zakaria, along with his wife, a jewelry designer and occasional writer for The Wall Street Journal, now join a number of Upper West Side media mavens populating the leafy blocks flanking Central Park, including NBC anchor Ann Curry and New Yorker film critic David Denby.
Mr. Zakaria, in addition to helming Newsweek International, which has a worldwide readership of 3.5 million, is one of the more visible foreign-policy pundits making the rounds of the network news programs and the op-ed pages of newspapers and magazines. In April 2003, W.W. Norton published his most recent book, The Future of Freedom; he has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker and was the wine columnist for Slate.
Mr. Zakaria was born in India and earned an undergraduate degree in history from Yale and a Ph.D. in international relations from Harvard. In 1992, at age 28, he became the managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine; more recently, during the run-up to the war in Iraq, he was in the liberal-hawk punditry corps (along with such luminaries as Thomas Friedman and Kenneth Pollack) that supported the Bush administration’s invasion plan but then turned against the fiasco once Saddam was toppled and the insurgency began. "All the big mistakes were made in the first three or four months, when the administration didn’t send in enough troops and spurned international cooperation," Mr. Zakaria said in The Times back in May. He went on to note that he had since developed a lot of respect for "the realist conservatives," who—presciently—had opined that the invasion would open up a "hornet’s nest."
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http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:k8EMPlHbz4EJ:www.observer.com/node/49792+Paula+Throckmorton,+Zakaria&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a--------------
March 8, 2001
THE AUSTRALIAN
Statesman In The MakingPrecocious international affairs pundit Fareed Zakaria has a new job, writes Sally Jackson from New York
At what age does a wunderkind begin to feel old? Thirty-six, according to Fareed Zakaria. Or is it 37?
"Wait a minute, let me work this out," he says, doing a quick mental calculation. "Good lord no, I just turned 37 on January 20!"
When he was a mere pup of 28, and the youngest-ever managing editor of highbrow policy journal Foreign Affairs, Zakaria used to take out his contact lenses and put on his specs just to ramp up his gravitas. The realisation that he no longer needs to resort to such ruses seems to make him a little doleful.
"I'm feeling old nowadays, I don't know why," he says. "I used to feel very young. Besides, after the dotcom mania nobody can feel young any more, when 23-year-olds are making $10 million."
Despite his advanced age, however, Zakaria indisputably remains one of the Bright Young Things of America's foreign policy establishment, with admirers as diverse as Condoleezza Rice, now national security adviser to President Bush, and men's magazine Esquire.
Rice described him as "intelligent about just about every area of the world" while Esquire tapped him as one of its "21 most important people of the 21st century".
Now an even broader audience, including Australian readers, is going to get the chance to check out Zakaria's world view. After eight years at the worthy but dry Foreign Affairs, early last month he joined the considerably more populist Newsweek magazine -- although as of last week he still had not finished moving into his new digs.
Unpacking has had to be squeezed in between a trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and work on his latest book, an as-yet untitled analysis of the past, present and future of democracy all over the world.
"It starts in 341AD and goes into the future, and it's 250 pages," Zakaria says of the book, due out next year. "It's very ambitious, which is why it's short. It either had to be very short, or very, very long."
For such a heavy hitter, descending from the rarefied air of the Foreign Affairs office on Manhattan's East 68th Street to the Newsweek building on West 57th might almost be seen as slumming it. But Zakaria seems to be relishing the change in atmosphere.
"If you are going to be involved with the world of politics and public policy, if you want to be a public intellectual and shape public debate, you have to find a way to engage with that broader audience," he says. "You can't just have a parlour game among the elite."
Zakaria's new job as editor of Newsweek International makes him responsible for its 26 foreign-language editions and three English-language overseas editions -- actually one edition with three different covers -- targeted at Europe, Asia (the one Australia gets) and Latin America. It also delivers him a global audience of approximately 3.5 million.
As well as editing, he will continue to write a column for the magazine and contribute to The Washington Post, Newsweek's owner.
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http://fareedzakaria.com/interviews/australian.html
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