In recent days, Barack Obama has been reminding us of Dr King's words that we can all do something to serve others, no matter who we are, and so it's with a certain amount of teary pride that I'm able to report the heroic service of Guardian US editor Michael Tomasky at an inauguration party here at the weekend. Arriving at Christopher Hitchens's Washington apartment building, Tomasky became trapped in an elevator with former New Yorker editor Tina Brown, her husband Harold Evans, Mike Allen and several other notables. Crisis loomed, until our hero, deploying "sheer brawn", forced open the doors, leading the shaken partygoers to safety. Evans may have contributed some brawn too, though reports differ.
Michael Tomasky: the kind of guy you would like to be trapped in an elevator with. (Except when he started talking about sports.) [Daily Intel]
