Portrait of Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, in front of her house in Brentwood, CA.
There is flattery, there is shameless flattery, and there are conversations with Arianna Huffington . She'll talk to old men about their libido, beautiful women about their intelligence, the unemployed about their talent and the wealthy about their artistic depth. In her hands, a compliment is the social equivalent of a Tomahawk missile, launched in stealth at a heavily researched target and perilously difficult to defend against.
As recently as five years ago, this ability plus a native braininess and a healthy dose of opportunism had earned her a regular seat at soirées in the...
