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it's getting harder to sneer these days
Man, this is getting tough. It used to be so easy to pick up a thick glossy weighted down in Bimmer and Movado watch ads and get right down to the business of sneering at the vanity of it all. <
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>Condé Nast Porfolio has thrown me for a loop. The ads are there all right, page after page of them, setting up the easy criticism of the poseurs who linger over such stuff. Trouble is, there is some amazingly good writing in here as well. Man, this hurts! <
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>A fine article on the House that Steinbrenner built in the Bronx goes down like honey. Some of the more investigative reporting that the magazine aims to establish its rep around is a bit trendy-left in its tone, but the editors sneak in some solid pieces that lack that stance as well: a fine piece on the presidential candidates' top economic advisors, some engaging smallies on tech and gadgets, and a well-done if overly unsympathetic look at Lebanon's Saad Hariri. <
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>This magazine leaps out of the gate with strength and may have a future beyond the ads. Truth be told, the ads are a lot of fun too. You didn't hear that here.

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If not for the ads
This magazine would have had a slight chance of being a worthwhile publication if it weren't for the cumbersome ads in this magazine. This magazine joins a long list of publications (Gourmet magazine comes to mind) that has hundreds of pages of advertising for conspicuous consumption items (BMW's, Versace, and Movado) with a smattering of interesting articles interspersed. To be more blunt, this magazine is largely a waste of paper. The articles found were what I would call business culture articles and largely lacks insight into the business world. Maybe it's just me, but who care's about what art the manager of a hedge fund owns or how much money a Manhattan plastic surgeon spends on his daughter's birthday party? I suppose the answer is that this magazine's target audience is other hedge fund managers who can afford to be in these bitter wealth flaunting competitions.