The "debate" has its modern origins in a 2007 Vanity Fair piece entitled "Why Women Aren't Funny" by Christopher Hitchens.
By Ray Harvey and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, June 24 , 1939P. 11 A man who drew a lucky number at the Telephone Exhibit at the World's Fair was entitled to make a long distance call.
I think Vidal's lost it, as the irrepressible Christopher Hitchens points out in a recent Vanity Fair piece entitled "Vidal Loco," but I have to say the words of the grand old man of letters echoed in my head during a recent visit to China, especially as I watched footage of the coffins of eight Chinese peacekeepers killed in Haiti being returned to Beijing.
Former New York Times writer Kurt Eichenwald's Vanity Fair article, entitled "Microsoft's Lost Decade", makes a strong case that an internal employee-ranking system helped turn Microsoft into a snake pit of intrigue that drove some great people away and diverted the attention of some who stayed.
For years, parties engaging in appraisal arbitrage enjoyed the opportunity to initiate essentially risk free appraisal litigation with substantial upside potential, because it was assumed by courts and litigants that "fair value" entitled dissenters to at least the price of the deal they were rejecting and potentially more.
The film evolved from journalist Nancy Jo Sales' 2015 Vanity Fair piece, entitled "Tinder and the Dawn of the 'Dating Apocalypse," which was criticized at the time for its narrow focus on 20-something, largely heterosexual women in an urban setting.
Now, Evgenia Peretz takes on the whole fooferaw in a Vanity Fair piece entitled "Something About Sally".
However, it goes without saying that none of the merchants at the fair are entitled to take any kind of moral high ground.
Robin Ferracone is the author of a recently published book entitled Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay, which explores how companies can achieve better performance and pay alignment.
