..."Previously, she [Parker] worked as a researcher for Maureen Dowd, a Times columnist."
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"He [Barbaro] has chronicled Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s obsession with muscle cars, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn’s relationship with her father and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s weekend getaways to Bermuda — a hardship assignment that involved staying on the island for a week.
His time on the retail beat gave him a taste for fashion and an interest in raising the sartorial standards in the style-challenged Times newsroom."