Lloyd Bennett Grove is editor at large for ''

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'', an American news reporting and opinion website focusing on politics and pop culture. He is also a frequent contributor to ''

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''. He was a

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for ''

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'' before he left on October 9, 2006, and wrote a fortnightly column for ''Portfolio.com'', the web site of ''Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine'', and was a contributing editor for ''Portfolio Magazine'' until it shut down in April 2009.

Early life

Grove was born in

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and grew up in

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. He completed his BA in English at

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. While at Yale, Grove had a summer job as an assistant for a show business press agent and reported for the

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.Watters, Susan (September 2003
''W'' article, ''Lloyd Almighty''
Retrieved on November 21, 2006.

Career

He has written for the ''

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'', ''New York Magazine'', '' Vanity Fair'' and ''

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''. Since September 2003, Grove has written a weekday column called ''Lloyd Grove's Lowdown'' for the ''New York Daily News''. He has obtained notoriety for his articles on the following: :*US President George W. Bush's daughter's underage drinking :*Actors

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' and

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's political influences :*Businessman

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's anti-Israel joke :*Congressman

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settling a fight between two girlfriends :*Outgoing administration's vandalism of Bush White HouseLauerman, Kerry and Montgomery, Alicia (May 23, 2001) Salon.co
''The White House vandal scandal that wasn't''
. Retrieved on November 14, 2007. :* Olbermann's Worst Person of The World for March 13, 2006

References

External links

New York Daily News- Archives
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