U.S. government to save billions by cutting wasteful Senator program. Israel won't talk about Obama's idea about a four-month freeze on settlements until Obama talks about it first. It's as if they've injected a growth hormone into the economic development.
As the weather warms and we retreat to our patios, roofdecks, and lanais, our thirst increases. Our staff and readers share their favorite outdoor drinks.
Split among circuit courts on drug laws and immigration finds Jerry Lemaine trapped in the middle. From cover-up to backlash, the Pope's abuse-scandal exposé parallels Watergate. Nuns' support of health care reform makes them the left's unlikely darlings. In bankrupt Haiti, bus drivers
Avante-garde composer John Cage's composition 4’33” created at the midpoint of the twentieth century, was conceived of without a single musical note. In his monograph No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33”, composer and Bard music mentor Kyle Gann writes: 4’ 33” Gann
Had friend David Meggesey, author of the highly regarded Out of Their League (selected by Sports Illustrated in 2002 as one of the top 100 sports books ever written) and former NFL Players Association apparatchik not recommended Rus Bradburd’s Forty Minutes of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardson
Democracy leader calls for global rejection of Burmese regime's election and "prearranged outcome." Changes in global attitudes toward homosexuality and prostitution show steady disdain for sex being sold. After banning prostitution last year, Iceland now forbids strip clubs. All that is harmful about Chinese mining investment
Ten students driving to obtain scholarships slaughtered in a truck in Durango, Mexico. Photos: Muscovites in mourning. Berlusconi makes regional gains despite scandals; voter turnout is lowest in 15 years. On the Times's payout and apology to Singapore's leaders: money for access, if disdainfully done. New
Around the world, water stirs up unexpected conflicts. Here’s a dip into the latest headlines, and finds that beyond the haves and the have-nots are the want-mores and the take-yours.
OK, I admit that I am blind to the allure of books about food, chefs, or most of what seems to excite the foodie partisans of the reading world. I did enjoy Amanda Hesser’s romance memoir and Barbara Haber’s social history, From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon
Brit foreign correspondent Rob Crilly (currently covering East Africa for The IrishTimes), having covered wars in Darfur, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, has spent five years in Sudan, and his book, Saving Darfur: Everyone’s Favourite African War (Reportage Books), both clarifies a conflict that he convincingly argues
