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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Helen Fessenden
‘The Determined Spy’ charts a CIA legend’s rapid rise and descent (washingtonpost.com) ‘The Determined Spy’ charts a CIA legend’s rapid rise and descent By Helen Fessenden 2025042713000000 Frank Wisner — a CIA legend and key architect of its covert-operations program — is a slippery target for a biographer. Critics of the agency might describe him as a cold-blooded company man who had no qualms about deploying brutal methods to preserve U.S. hegemony abroad.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
spokesman.com | Helen Fessenden
Based on formal measures like GDP growth and unemployment, the U.S. economy is humming along. The American worker? Not so much. Consumers are still smarting from the legacy of historic inflation as they try to cover essential needs, whether groceries, housing or child care. Labor strikes, protesting the long-term erosion of wages and benefits, have hit industries from Hollywood to shipping.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
pressherald.com | Helen Fessenden
Based on formal measures like GDP growth and unemployment, the U.S. economy is humming along. The American worker? Not so much. Consumers are still smarting from the legacy of historic inflation as they try to cover essential needs, whether groceries, housing or child care. Labor strikes, protesting the long-term erosion of wages and benefits, have hit industries from Hollywood to shipping.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
infobae.com | Helen Fessenden
Basado en medidas formales como el crecimiento del PIB y el desempleo, la economía de EE. UU. está funcionando bien. ¿El trabajador estadounidense? No tanto. Los consumidores aún resienten la herencia de la histórica inflación mientras intentan cubrir necesidades esenciales, ya sea alimentación, vivienda o cuidado infantil. Las huelgas laborales, que protestan por la erosión a largo plazo de los salarios y beneficios, han afectado a industrias desde Hollywood hasta el transporte marítimo.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
msn.com | Helen Fessenden
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Helen Fessenden
Review by Helen FessendenOctober 13, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. EDTBased on formal measures like GDP growth and unemployment, the U.S. economy is humming along. The American worker? Not so much. Consumers are still smarting from the legacy of historic inflation as they try to cover essential needs, whether groceries, housing or child care. Labor strikes, protesting the long-term erosion of wages and benefits, have hit industries from Hollywood to shipping.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
infobae.com | Helen Fessenden
Phil Elwood es un experto en Washington. Profesional de las relaciones públicas, ha gestionado con sigilo encargos difíciles a lo largo de los años, desde la impugnada candidatura de Qatar para el Mundial de Fútbol hasta el desastroso perfil de la esposa de Bashar al-Assad, Asma, publicado por Vogue en 2011. Su pasión es controlar la narrativa, aprovechando su valiosa inteligencia y su conocimiento de los medios para ofrecer resultados a sus clientes. Y vaya lista de clientes que tiene.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
fredericknewspost.com | Helen Fessenden
Meet Phil Elwood, an insider’s insider of Washington. A public relations professional, he has stealthily managed challenging assignments over the years, from Qatar’s contested World Cup bid to Vogue’s disastrous 2011 profile of Bashar al-Assad’s wife, Asma. His passion is controlling the narrative — leveraging valuable intelligence and his media savvy to deliver for clients. And oh, what a client list it is. Under the surface, though, Elwood is a wreck.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Helen Fessenden
Phil Elwood has written a book about his Washington life that’s part therapy, part cautionary tale — and quite funny.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
texarkanagazette.com | Phil Elwood |Helen Fessenden
All the Worst HumansHow I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and PoliticiansBy Phil Elwood; Henry Holt (272 pp. $28.99)Meet Phil Elwood, an insider's insider of Washington. A public relations professional, he has stealthily managed challenging assignments over the years, from Qatar's contested World Cup bid to Vogue's disastrous 2011 profile of Bashar al-Assad's wife, Asma. His passion is controlling the narrative - leveraging valuable intelligence and his media savvy to deliver for clients.
