Then, as we learn from Jim Lewis's terrific profile of Cobb, she returned home to Fogo with an ambitious plan to set her community on a new path.
Rather, he was 19-year-old Perry Jones III, a talented, 6-foot-11, African-American freshman at Baylor University, who, coincidentally, was the subject of a terrific profile by Michael Sokolove in The New York Times Magazine a month ago.
In that case, as Rick Perlstein pointed out in a terrific profile of Chauncey from 2004, the historical argument that resonated with the justices was that anti-sodomy laws aimed specifically at homosexuals weren't really part of the American tradition after all.
It might have been a better bill, with fewer tax cuts and bolder investments in a new economy, but I am accepting of Rahm Emmanuel's defense, citing the doctrine of the politically possible, as delivered in my colleague Ryan Lizza's terrific profile last week.
As Ken Auletta explained last year in a terrific profile of Tim Armstrong, the C.E.O. of AOL, the company has long been buoyed by the incredible fact that there are still lots of people who send in monthly checks, unaware that they no longer need AOL to connect to the Internet.
Paul Herbig Angola, Ind. Kudos to FORBES for a terrific profile on Albert Norman and his tactics for keeping Wal-Mart out of the towns that don't want to be part of the superstore invasion.
"McKee has become the most visible member of a cohort of research scientists and family members -- wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters of the dead, dying, and demented -- who have forced the issue of chronic brain trauma into the forefront of American consciousness," Jane Leavy wrote in a terrific profile in Grantland last year.
As my colleague Ryan Lizza noted in his terrific biographical Profile of Ryan, Rand's works were an early and important influence on him, shaping his thinking as far back as high school.
It also has a terrific nutritional profile.
I was reminded of Alsop when I read a terrific New Yorker profile by Lauren Collins about author, journalist and Internet star Arianna Huffington and her booming Huffington Post Web site.
