Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Howell Raines

Born: February 5, 1943 (age 83)
Bio: Howell Hiram Raines is an American journalist. He was Executive Editor of The New York Times from 2001 until he left in 2003 in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal. In 2008, he became a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio, writing the magazine's media column.
Known for:
- Fly fishing through the midlife crisis (1993)
- The one that got away (2006)
- Whiskey man (1977)






