... Peterson. What you should really be embarrassed about a half-a-billion dollars of taxpayers' money that the governor of Minnesota gave to the Wilf brothers to build the stadium in which they will keep all of the profits. If people become more aware of those issues, if football becomes ...
... Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has a book coming out early next month, and in it, she writes about male senators commenting on her weight. One colleague told her, “Don’t lose too much weight now. I like my girls chubby.” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is suing the U ...
... and corporate institutions. Louis XIV, for example, stopped carrying golden notebooks of his expenditures and revenues, and his nation plunged into the red under the weight of multiple wars and opulent palaces. For a modern example of the importance of accounting, look no further than the collapse of Lehman Brothers ...
... course my son comes first." Also at the after-school center, boxing coach Umar Abdus-Salaam keeps a watchful eye on three of the Tate brothers, whose father died. Abdus-Salaam takes all the boys he coaches not just to boxing matches but on fishing trips and to sporting events ...
... opinion of some of these alternate measures? The subjectivity is the Achilles heel of it. Maryland’s GPI has 20-some indicators, for example. What weight do I put on each? How much do I subtract for the commuting time? And if I enjoy my commute, maybe it’s one ...
... you just saw, but you have watched the Middle East. How important were the Camp David accords and are they still? MARGARET WARNER: As Lawrence Wright and Jerry Rafshoon just said, really essential, because you took the two most powerful armies and the -- and sworn enemies, and they cut a ...
... year-old who described how he dropped to the floor in his house after his family members had been murdered, smeared his six-year-old brother's blood on himself, and played dead. These are the scenes we remember and struggle with, passed along by journalists, as we think about ...
CT scanners can be used to detect cancerous tumors. Photo by Flickr user Topsy Quret. In 10 days, the United Nations will convene a high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases. The world's global health news has been so dominated by infectious culprits -- HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza -- that it's easy to forget just how big...
Swedish policemen and volunteers patrol on Dec. 13, 2010 at the corner of Bryggaregatan and Drottninggatan street in central Stockholm, where a car bomb targeted Christmas shoppers Saturday. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images) Swedish police said they are "98 percent sure" that Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, born in Baghdad but living in the United Kingdom, was responsible for...
The disintegration of a family in a very fractured and unsettled, post-9/11 America is told in "Freedom," the new novel by Jonathan Franzen. His last novel, "The Corrections," won the 2001 National Book Award.
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