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“You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.” That was only part of the recent verbal attack mounted by Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party on the new EU President, ...
“You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.” That was only part of the recent verbal attack mounted by Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party on the new EU President, ...
While you were sleeping, more women were claiming they"ve slept with Sandra Bullock's (hopefully soon-to-be ex) husband Jesse James, and although his mistress count hasn"t reached a Tiger-level of absurdity, things ...
As a culture, we’re wistful about our tallest buildings. Cities love to show off grand buildings as testaments to human endeavor. Illuminated skyscrapers are a region’s trophies, towering evidence of its ...
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.” From A Tale of Two Cities, Sydney Carton’s words, as he rode the tumbrel ...
At a conference last month in Long Beach, Cailfornia, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, architect of Microsoft's Bing Maps, demonstrated a host of exciting features for the mapping site, which hopes to use its more fluid zooming ...
BBC correspondent John Simpson reported on March 4 that the number of defects in newborn babies in the Iraqi town of Fallujah had risen dramatically since the American assault there at the end of 2004. Some people in the town ...
Despite the pain of the past year and a half, will the signs of what smacks of a second Gilded Age "continue on their merry way," as one Vanity Fair editor recently proposed? Indeed, as the rich keep getting richer and ...
I certainly don"t know much about investing, but I can give you one solid tip: don"t bet in the movie box office futures market. Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald expects to get federal regulatory approval to begin ...
Zurich has a reputation for being stodgy, but it ain’t so, at least not after hours. On one of my first visits, I met a Dublin girl by the name of Mary O"Connell downstairs at ...
What's the long-term future of spectator sports? With the conclusion of the Winter Olympics, some new trends have come into focus. The Olympics, for instance, have established a niche as the Exception to the Rules of Sports ...
My instinctive reaction to what had just happened and indeed to the events of the day itself, was, of course, to head straight for the minibar. I found it lurking underneath the T.V on the right hand side of the room, a small ...
Joseph Stack, frustrated American, flew his airplane into an Austin, Texas, office building. He was one of the 79 percent of Americans who have given up on “their” government. The latest Rasmussen Poll indicates ...
Serbs, Bolivians, bankers, neo-Nazis, and terrorists from invented African republics: Hollywood has been attacked by them all. In Europe, the baddies have always been more thoroughly white and solidly Western. But Muslims, ...
My Feb. 16 column, “A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs,” received confirmation from high places on the very day it appeared. Popular Indiana Democratic U.S. Senator Evan Bayh announced that he was quitting the ...