• Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editor. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times...
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    did not help improve the Communist Party's views of him. The writer Daniel Okrent states that a key event in Man at the Crossroad's conception occurred...
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  • up Okrent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Okrent is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arika Okrent, American linguist Daniel Okrent...
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  • students was Daniel Okrent. According to Alan Schwarz's The Numbers Game: Baseball’s Lifelong Fascination with Statistics, Sklar told Okrent about the Baseball...
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    (18 m) shorter than the Huntington Avenue Grounds center-field depth. Daniel Okrent, Harris Lewine, David Nemec (2000) The Ultimate Baseball Book, Houghton...
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  • heavily from the 2010 book Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent. Prohibition describes how the consumption and effect of alcoholic beverages...
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  • students was Daniel Okrent. According to Alan Schwarz's The Numbers Game: Baseball’s Lifelong Fascination with Statistics, Sklar told Okrent about the Baseball...
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  • stat was invented in 1979 by writer Daniel Okrent, who called the metric "innings pitched ratio" at the time. Okrent excluded hit batsmen from the numerator...
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  • by interviews with critics and biographers like Allen, Nat Hentoff, Daniel Okrent, and Douglas McGrath, who comment on the film's plot as if the characters...
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    famous fans of his puzzles such as Bill Clinton, Ken Burns, Jon Stewart, Daniel Okrent, Indigo Girls and Mike Mussina appear in the film. In the 2004 film...
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  • editor two months after retiring from the Journal, Calame succeeded Daniel Okrent in the ombudsman-like position and was followed by Clark Hoyt. His focus...
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    was not working. Historian David Oshinsky, summarizing the work of Daniel Okrent, wrote that "Prohibition worked best when directed at its primary target:...
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    1875. p. 2. Okrent, Daniel. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York: Scribner, 2010. ISBN 9781439171691, p. 212 Okrent, Daniel. Last Call:...
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    December 5, 2017. Okrent 2003, pp. 378–379. Okrent 2003, p. 377. Okrent 2003, p. 382. Okrent 2003, p. 384. Okrent 2003, p. 391. Okrent 2003, p. 331. Balfour...
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  • scandal. The Times' first public editor was Daniel Okrent, whose background was primarily in book publishing; Okrent held the position from December 2003 through...
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    of Ages (review of Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-08-18. Johnston, Laurie; Anderson...
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  • "The New York Times > Week in Review > Biography: The Public Editor: Daniel Okrent". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-02-01. JBC Staff (2023-01-24)...
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    Baseball portal Inside baseball (metaphor) Glossary of baseball terms Daniel Okrent, Harris Lewine, David Nemec (2000) The Ultimate Baseball Book, Houghton...
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  • whiskey, which Walgreen often stocked under the counter, as accounted in Daniel Okrent's Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. The stock market crash...
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    Canadian Whiskey: The Portable Expert (2012) ISBN 978-0-7710-2745-1. Daniel Okrent, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, p. 343. (2010, Simon &...
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  • Epic of Rockefeller Center is a non-fiction book by American writer Daniel Okrent about the conception, planning, and building of Rockefeller Center in...
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    Bathtub Gin" Interview with Daniel Okrent by Terry Gross, Fresh Air on NPR, 2010-05-10. Retrieved 2010-05-10. Okrent, Daniel. Wayne B. Wheeler: The Man...
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    garnered respect for James's work, including a very favorable review by Daniel Okrent in Sports Illustrated. New annual editions added essays on teams and...
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  • In 1968, Professor Sklar mentioned it to Daniel Okrent, a student he was advising. A decade later, Okrent invented the more complex Rotisserie League...
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    those who were both wealthy and worthy of society reporting. The author Daniel Okrent writes that the diners at the Rainbow Room were representative of the...
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    with the invention of Rotisserie League Baseball by New York writer Daniel Okrent and several friends. Participants in a Rotisserie league draft notional...
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  • Marquez-Sterling, historian Charley McDowell, journalist Willie Morris, writer Daniel Okrent, public editor, The New York Times Keith Olbermann, broadcaster Thomas...
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  • musician Jackie Fox, actor Guy Branum, Rotisserie League Baseball inventor Daniel Okrent, writer Anna Quindlen, politician and former White House Chief of Staff...
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    in 2005. In the July 23, 1990, issue of Sports Illustrated, author Daniel Okrent raved about the park in his column entitled Just A Little Bit of Heaven...
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    Australia and North America, 1919–1978 (U of New South Wales Press, 1995). Daniel Okrent (2010). Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. Simon and Schuster...
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