This week’s events infused an energy boost to the Democratic Party with the death of Osama bin Laden and the election of Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the first elected woman chair by the full body of the Democratic National Committee. Her remarks following her election show how she intends to chair the DNC.
When she was 25 years old, she ran for the Florida House of
Sure, Thor opened at No. 1 on the box-office charts this past weekend, taking in a whopping $66 million.
But it’s not like director Kenneth Branagh is unfamiliar with the sensation of being the leader of the pack. He’s been there before, as he’s quick to point out – 20 years ago, with Dead Again, his second film.
“Many moons ago, Dead Again was cleverly opened in the gap between the end of the summer and the logjam of award-winning pictures,” he says in a telephone interview. “And it was
I’ll share a little secret with you: sometimes, I’m happy when a real estate deal dies sooner than later. My delight in a speedy passing means I never advocated or sidestepped multiple renegotiations. A quick demise lets me dodge reading a home inspection report or discussing the intricacies of a plumbing’s inadequacies. A fast collapse equals no contract drafting or review, and total avoidance of clause-by-clause confrontations!
A lot of work goes into a residential real estate deal after a buyer and a seller seemingly
Before my daughter’s birth, my Tel Aviv-born husband and I spent hours discussing the implications of our future child’s dual citizenship. How would an American-born child negotiate dual identities? Would citizenship help her to feel closer to her Israeli cousins? How would we raise her to feel responsibility for both of her home countries? Would she volunteer for the army (and which one)? Would we be setting her up for bureaucratic hurdles in one country or another? What if she runs for president?
And then: after her arrival, these big questions disappeared into a bureaucratic shuffle. We arrived at Ben Gurion airport for a year abroad, carrying a four-week-old baby and a pile of documents. A few visits to the Interior Ministry later, our baby’s tiny shoulders officially carried two countries’ hopes and dreams, as well as the weight of two countries’ tzuris.
This year, the American Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 8) falls together with Israel’s Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day, May 9) and Yom Ha’atzma’ut (Independence Day, May
A mere day’s drive from New York City, there exists a “hidden America” — a place of beautiful mountains, family values, and such extreme poverty that many in America are astounded to learn something of this scale exists here. When most people think of poverty, they think of places like Africa and Haiti, not America. But poverty here in the United States does exist, and it is more prevalent than most Americans know or would like to believe.
In 2009, I had just launched Rockin’ WaterTM a fortified children’s
The contrast could not be sharper. There was President Obama, basking in the victory glow of the raid that took out Osama bin Laden. And there were five hapless Republican presidential candidates trying desperately to get noticed at the first debate of the 2012 campaign in South Carolina. The winner, according to a focus group conducted for Fox News, which sponsored the debate: Herman
US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has called on China to rely more on its own spending and less on exports.
"The challenge is to lay the foundation for a new growth model, driven more by domestic demand," he advised his Chinese counterparts.
His comments came at the start of a two-day bilateral trade meeting in Washington.
US officials and many economists say Beijing depends unfairly on a cheap currency to boost exports and
A few months ago I was walking with a long-time friend of mine who has had a long history of working in the field of personal and professional development. He said something that really surprised me. He had developed a discipline of checking into the present moment every minute of the day. For just a few seconds he checks to see where he is, what he is thinking, and how he is
John Yoo, author of the infamous torture memo that manipulated legal materials to justify the use of torture for interrogation during the Bush Administration, has been crowing all over the media that the death of Osama bin Laden shows that torture works. I’m glad that Yoo is able to make that claim in a credible way because it moves the torture issue away from technical issues of effectiveness to the moral realm, where the matter of torture should always have been discussed and decided.
Yoo is a moral relativist or even nihilist. In his recent defenses of torture that I have read, he does not even mention
When you cook a lot, it is easy to run into periods of side-dish-fatigue, ending up serving the same old side dishes every day.
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The ideas of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) are making a comeback, in large part due to Glenn Beck, who has touted the libertarian economist and philosopher’s views on his TV show. The essence of Hayek’s views — spelled out in his most well-known book, The Road to Serfdom — is that government stifles freedom and liberty. With a few exceptions, he viewed almost any governmental intervention in economic affairs as a slippery slope toward totalitarian socialism. No wonder that Beck has been hawking Hayek.
Now comes Francis Fukuyama, the neoconservative political scientist, who uses the pages of the New York Times Book Review to hawk his own version of
Few topics are as polarizing as the escalating use of plastic surgery to alter the appearance of men, women and an increasing number of young adults. There are those who vehemently oppose the whole idea, seeing it as a sad reflection of our beauty- and youth-obsessed culture, while others embrace it as an opportunity to prolong the health and vitality of one’s appearance.
In spite of this ongoing debate, plastic surgery experts predict wider use by a broader spectrum of people as safer, more refined and affordable techniques are developed. According to the most recent report by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, close to 13 million cosmetic procedures were performed this year in the U.S. alone, representing a 155-percent increase over the past
The southern US city of Memphis is coping with near-record flooding that has forced the evacuation of at least 1,300 homes, officials have said.
The Mississippi River was expected to crest at 48ft (14.6m) on Monday in the Tennessee city, 14ft above flood stage.
The authorities have evacuated low-lying neighbourhoods, and officials said they were confident flood control systems would prevent further harm.
Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell said 400 people were staying in
Dear Secretary Vilsack,
I’d like to thank you for tackling some very tough questions from audience members at last Wednesday’s The Future of Food conference in Washington, DC. Your passion and commitment for farmers and rural communities is moving and greatly appreciated. I must admit, however, I am extremely disappointed with your response to my question about antibiotic use in food animals. I asked, when will the government do something to stop producers from squandering 70% of our antibiotics on healthy farm animals? You answered with the question, “How do you basically legislate that?”
Almost everyone in the audience knew the
You likely know — from innumerable sources, my rants among them — that obesity is epidemic among children and adults alike, and counts among the most urgent of public health threats in the modern world. While the U.S. remains the epicenter of this slow-motion disaster, its scope and toll are increasingly global.
You may also be aware that among the many consequences of obesity that collectively threaten not only years of life, but the life in those years, is prejudice. Bias against obesity runs both wide and
I am surprised by the right wing’s focus on environmental protection as an example of government over-regulation. While corporations as mainstream as Wal-Mart are requiring their suppliers to reduce their use of energy and measure the sustainability of their products, the relentless attack on environmental protection continues. John Broder of the New York Times reported that Congressional Republicans are against studying hydrofracking even if the goal is to make it safer rather than eliminating it. Do they really believe that the American people are willing to risk their water supply in order to extract natural gas from the ground? Why is learning more about an issue an example of “regulatory red tape run amok”? Broder also reported that North Carolina’s Republican Senator Richard Burr would like to merge EPA and the Department of
The complaint that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued against the Boeing Company on April 20th has touched off a storm of comment and controversy, much of it wrong. We need to get past rhetoric and look at what the case is really about.
In every state in our nation, the law provides important protections for individual workers when they act together to improve their work lives for themselves and their families. The law also says that employers cannot retaliate against workers who engage in protected activities. If retaliation were permitted, there would be no protection.
For many years, Boeing employees in the State of Washington have worked through their union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, to improve their work lives at the company — all while helping Boeing prosper by building the best commercial airliners in the
The most wanted man in the world was hunted down and killed in the dead of night May 1, 2011. What kind of obituary is appropriate for such a man, what kind of reckoning begins to do justice to his impact on contemporary history? The face of terror has just been taken down, what should we do now?
Osama bin Laden was the first global terrorist. No terrorist in history so powerfully confronted a great power as bin Laden confronted the United States. From the beginning of his jihad against us, he stated that his aim was to bankrupt the United States by drawing it into wars it could not
By Joanne Kenen and Rochelle Sharpe
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a potential Republican presidential candidate respected for his fiscal prudence, credits his success in government to the business skills he learned as a pharmaceutical executive.
But when Daniels worked as a top executive at Eli Lilly & Co., one of the world’s largest drug firms, the pharmaceutical giant’s reputation was tarred by some of the nation’s ugliest drug scandals.
In the decade that Daniels climbed the corporate ladder at Eli Lilly, the company was illegally marketing its leading osteoporosis drug, Evista, as well as its blockbuster antipsychotic, Zyprexa, putting tens of thousands of patients in harm’s way. Lilly pleaded guilty to two criminal misdemeanors, paid more than $2.7 billion in fines and damages, settled more than 32,000 personal injury claims — and copped to one of the largest state consumer protection cases involving a drug company in U.S. history, a review by iWatch News shows.
The company also became embroiled in a high-profile legal brawl over its patent for the antidepressant Prozac.
Daniels became increasingly influential as he rose through the company’s ranks in positions that involved polishing the drugmaker’s image and then shaping its
Superhero movie Thor has repeated its UK success in the US and Canada, making an estimated $66m (£40.3m) in its first weekend of release.
The comic book blockbuster raked in more than twice as much as its nearest competition – action sequel Fast and Furious 5 – between Friday and Sunday.
Kenneth Branagh's film opened last week in the UK and Ireland, taking £5.4m in its first six days at cinemas.
Australian actor Chris Hemsworth stars as Marvel Comics' Norse god of
Paula Abdul is to join the panel of the US X Factor, alongside Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole and Antonio LA Reid.
The singer, 48, took part in the show's first judging session on Sunday.
"This show would never have been the same without Paula," said Cowell, who also worked with Abdul on American Idol.
Abdul said she was "excited beyond words" about her new
I received the following email a few days ago from a Russian nuclear physicist friend who is an expert on the kinds of gases being released at Fukushima. Here is what he wrote:
“About Japan: the problem is that the reactor uses “dirty” fuel. It is a combination of plutonium and uranium (MOX).
I suspect that the old fuel rods have bean spread out due to the explosion and the surrounding area is contaminated with plutonium which means you can never return to this place
After the largest weekly drop in oil prices (‘Oil Falls Again, Gutted in Record Weekly Drop’ Reuters 05.06.11) there was the New York Times, the oil industry’s good Samaritan instructing us to the cheers of the oil crowd, of the inevitability of ever higher oil prices to come (‘Price of Crude Oil Falls Again, But Analysts Warn It Will Remain at Lofty Levels’05.06.11) In its inimical fashion the New York Times trotted out all the usual palaver assuring us that oil’s recent sharp price decline is but an interlude, a blip, in its continued ascent into the stratosphere. Thereby not only giving us the oiligopoly mantra, but also preparing us to accept unquestioningly any new ascent in oil prices. By doing so, making it easier for the ‘preordained’ oil and gas price increases to come to pass- the best flacks the oil industry could buy could not have pitched it better.
Yes, there were all the usual lesson points as to why we should blandly accept the inevitably of higher prices. The disruption of production in Libya and the Gulf of Mexico, and of course Yemen, increased consumption in developing countries, and in Japan as it
Boris Karloff’s only daughter doesn’t like frightening movies.
“The Wizard of Oz scared me when I was seven. Now I leave the room during Murder, She Wrote,” said Sara Karloff, an elegant woman of a certain age who was born when her father was 51.
The dark-skinned beauty’s coal-black hair sports an amazing white streak, reminiscent of Bride of You-Know-Who.
Chit-chatting easily during an intimate gathering/book signing at Hollywood Boulevard’s Larry Edmunds Bookshop celebrating the release of a new Karloff bio, Boris Karloff, More Than a Monster,
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