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2009-04-07 … elite; other rules apply to them. Before moving on let's cast our minds back to September 2008 when Lehman had collapsed, AIG was rescued and the New York Times ran this story:- Behind Insurer's Crisis, Blind Eye to a Web of Risk Although it was not widely known, Goldman, a Wall Street stalwart that had …
2009-03-30 … going to 6,400 of AIG's employees and another $600 million in "retention pay" going to another 4,000 of them, for a grand total of over $1 billion. The New York Times reported that seven AIG executives would receive bonuses worth $3 million or more each, while the Washington Post related that $165 million was …
2009-03-13 … and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina - have echoed that view recently […] Eric Dash, "Growing Worry on Rescue Takes a Toll on Banks," The New York Times, February 20, 2009 How is it that Alan Greenspan, free-market lobbyist for Wall Street, recently announced that he favored nationalization of …
2009-02-28 … any sense because the currency is overvalued." That view is shared by Paul Krugman, a Nobel prize-winning economist who in a Dec. 15 commentary in the New York Times warned that Latvia may become "the new Argentina." That country had a currency board and saw its peso plunge even after receiving an IMF loan. The …
2009-02-21 … walking us towards economic Armageddon while being seemingly aware that that is exactly where they are taking us. Here it is from the horse's mouth, the New York Times:- Rise in Jobless Poses Threat to Stability Worldwide From lawyers in Paris to factory workers in China and bodyguards in Colombia, the ranks of the …
2008-10-13 … who monopolize the economy and dominate the US government, they will remain as ruthlessly preoccupied with their personal enrichment as ever. As the New York Times reported on Friday, a sticking point in the government plan to purchase stock from the banks with taxpayer money is the existence of token …
2009-04-11 … Iran’s proxies — had that power tomorrow? Cohen: I don’t know what would happen. Of course he does. No one who is intelligent enough to write for The New York Times can claim ignorance on this. But Cohen cannot answer truthfully because to do so would be to admit that Hamas’ motives in talking about “ceasefires” …
2009-02-03 … touch Facebook with a bargepole – Stephen Fry, Richard Hammond and the like. Also following Iain Dale, Guido Fawkes and Devil’s Kitchen, as well as the New York Times and Timesonline. So my Twitter home is literally filled with news. Which is how I like it Do go and join – it’s free, it’s fun and best of all it’s …
2009-06-29 “Well of course! Or connections with an outside country are much more vital interests to our criminal government than families who live in American and relatives were murdered by them. Duh?” -Fred Face 6/29/09 […] BY DANIEL TENCER The Supreme Court has rejected a class-action lawsuit against …
2009-04-18 … to Toronto, and met with Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. On December 21, an ad with their “War is over” message appeared in the New York Times. The Bed-in was the high point of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s actions for peace, which owed their efficacy to both communications strategies and …
2009-02-14 … developer Gilbert Silverman and his wife, Lila, have decided to donate their extensive collection of Fluxus works to the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Times reports. Silverman first learned of Fluxus, the avant-garde movement of the 1960s and '70s whose best-known figures include Nam June Paik, Christo, …
2009-02-14 The New York Times Inside Art Fluxus Art Bolsters MoMA’s Collection By CAROL VOGEL Published: February 12, 2009 After he had collected things as curious as antique …
2008-02-28 … this country.” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ended speculation that he might run for president as an independent Thursday with an op-ed in the New York Times. Bloomberg also weighed in on some of the hot issues of the campaign, saying the candidates “must know better” than to think the United States can …
2008-02-25 … from Arab countries in the British paper al-Sharq al-Awsat. The Middle Eastern media institute MEMRI has the article in translation. Inflation: The New York Times reports that rising inflation is stirring economic unease across the Middle East.
2008-02-20 … dictator who had outlived his times. For the really dramatic changes, it says, the long-suffering Cubans will probably have to wait a little longer. The New York Timeswrites that in a closed, repressive society, the post-Fidel era is clearly at hand, and the Bush administration has done almost nothing to prepare …
2009-07-07 … the Tegulcigapa airport that responded to his call from his plane as it unsuccessfully attempted to land, earning the condescending disdain of the New York Times. By the standards of the Grey Lady, that's just not how its done, going over the heads of the US State Department and the Pentagon, so as …
2009-06-16 … Comment (Middle East scholar Juan Cole) Ahmadinejad reelected under a cloud of fraud (Salon.com) 06/13/09 Stealing the Iranian Election 06/13/09 The New York Times - global edition The Lede Blog (editor: Robert Mackey) Latest Updates on Iran’s Disputed Election 06/16/09 Updates on Iran’s Disputed Election …
2009-06-04 … Rice’s Remarks from her Cairo Speech at AUC (American University in Cairo) June 20, 2005 3arabawy by journalist Hossam al-Hamalawy (Cairo, Egypt) NYT Op-Ed: Our allies not in the White House 06/03/09 National Public Radio Interview: Is there freedom of expression in Egypt? 06/03/09 You are NOT …
2005-09-25 … Council. It however leaves it open when this could be done. It remains to be seen what good this will do. So far – as the linked editorial in the New York Times today argues – most of the policy moves done versus Iran in the last few years have been counterproductive. The hardliners are stronger, and the …
2008-04-27 … liberties and human rights can Americans ever hope to repair the damage and ensure it does not happen again. (via various editorials published by The New York Times on the topic: 'Torture') [Read about Torture on Wikipedia] [Watch a video montage from a film about the war crimes of the 'Einsatzgruppen', set in a …
2009-07-03 Famous and respected New York Judge Richard Posner says maybe we should ban links to save newspapers. From his blog: Imagine if the New York Times migrated entirely to the World Wide Web. Could it support, out of advertising and subscriber revenues, as large a news-gathering apparatus as it …
2009-06-24 … is shaking the Mideast and deeply confusing everyone, including the US government. THE PROPAGANDA WAR AGAINST IRAN […] The US media, led by the New York Times , is continuing its concerted propaganda campaign against Iran over charges that the government stole the election […] There is not even a …
2009-06-15 … German FM: Crackdown on protests "unacceptable […] French official: Iran situation "not good news […] Election none of America's business ...The New York Times and the election Is Iran nuking up as Obama fiddles? [No […] 50% of Israelis back bombing Iran if needed Dennis Ross being ousted as envoy to …
2009-06-13 … said today, urging the world not to engage in dialogue with Iran. (And: OBAMADMIN SKEPTICAL OF RESULTS) (And: REACTIONS TO OUTCOME) MORE NYT WARMONGERING […] Well, the New York Times warmongering capability has apparently not been much diminished by the loss of Judith Miller, who, in …
2008-10-02 … Dennis Ross, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) consultant, who is serving as a Middle East advisor for the Barack Obama campaign. The New York Times also reports that the "McCain and Obama campaigns have been briefed on the report's recommendations, and both were receptive, said Mr. Weber and …
2009-07-02 1. JAPANESE HAWK CHOSEN TO LEAD IAEA Sharon Otterman at the New York Times reports that Japanese diplomat, Yukiya Amano, was elected to head the UN's atomic watchdog--the IAEA. "Depicted by experts as the candidate favored …
2009-06-29 … a domestic audience without unduly rattling markets. But it may also result from the need to appease certain interests within the government. A New York Times article last year explained that as the central bank took foreign exchange losses as the RMB rose, it may have to go hat in hand to the finance …
2009-06-26 … Qatar. (h/t Michael Collins Dunn at MEI's Editor's Blog.) 7. ISRAEL GRANTS PALESTINIAN SECURITY FORCES MORE FREEDOM TO OPERATE Isabel Kershner at the New York Times reports that Israel has agreed to give Palestinian security forces more freedom to operate in the cities of Ramallah, Qalqilya, Bethlehem and …
2009-06-18 … by rail volumes for the week ended June 13 were down 19.2% from a year earlier. 11. US TOTAL NAT GAS RESERVES ESTIMATION UP 35% Jad Mouawad at the New York Times reports that the Potential Gas Committee released a report today showing that natural gas reserves in the US have increased by 35%. "Estimated …
2009-06-26 … ever-tightening emissions targets will be met. Well, it probably isn’t about inflicting pain. The goal would seem to be to avoid inflicting pain. The New York Times is going for yes: The bill has shortcomings. But we believe that it is an important beginning to the urgent task of averting the worst damage from …
2007-07-12 From the New York Times: William Arruda, a branding expert and the co-author of “Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand”, believes that managing one’s …
2007-06-03 … I thought you treated him just fine. You were ambiguous. It was difficult to know what you thought about him. EM: I still don’t know what I think. The New York Times, today on the front page, had an article about new evidence concerning incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964. The incidents – which are …
2009-06-15 … (Glenn Seaborg) once described it as “fiendishly toxic.” Plutonium is also the preferred material for making a rogue atomic bomb, which is why the New York Times has called the world’s existing supplies of plutonium “one of the most intractable problems of the post-cold-war era.”[1] Lastly, nuclear power …
2009-06-16 Perhaps my least favored columnist at the New York Times is the smug Paul Krugman. Krugman, in my opinion, is one of the least honest columnists around. So it is with some amusement that I read what he …
2009-06-29 … followed publication of his story about contra-cocaine trafficking. That story prompted a fierce counterattack from major U.S. newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times which had all downplayed or dismissed the contra-cocaine scandal when it first arose in the …
2003-03-09 … Germany with the West are America's fault […] The original quotation for this "proposition" came from a German journalist, cited in an article in the New York Times. See this post where the journalist from Die Zeit essentially says that he was misrepresented in the NYT piece.] There's more of that sentiment …
2003-03-07 OVIE REVIEW: The New York Times has favorably reviewed the German movie, "Nirgendwo in Afrika." The movie opens in New York today -- I believe it will run with English subtitles. …
2009-07-05 … a bit complex here. The size of the premium is not based on stock prices at market close, but on stock valuations offered by Exelon. For instance, the New York Times Dealbook Blog reported that Exelon addressed this difference by pricing NRG’s stock at $28.10/share which is a hypothetical price that exists only …
2009-06-25 … statement, Duke CEO Jim Rogers said, “We face the indisputable fact that our nation and our world are transitioning to a low-carbon future.” He told the New York Times in a telephone interview, “Most of our fleet in Ohio, which is coal-fired, will be retired over the next 15-20 years. We’re going to need to replace …
2009-06-18 … II following action by the Missouri legislature's decision not to enable "construction while in progress" (CWIP) legislation. Update 6:00 PM 6/16/09 The New York Times reports that because the old gaseous diffusion enrichment process used so much electricity, the site has strong connections via TVA to transmission …
2008-07-25 … news sources have come out with maps and lists that detail what percentage of income Americans are now spending on gas in various places. A map from The New York Times shows that people in Alabama, Mississippi, New Mexico, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Kentucky, and Oklahoma often spend over 8%, and in some areas over 10% …
2009-06-27 … the financial crisis really is, despite all the green recovery shooting stories sprouting from government circles and media such as, among others, the New York Times, I’m going to have to guess that it's official now. It sort of makes one wonder how much longer media such as the New York Times will now be able to …
2009-07-07 … actually suffering deprivation and repression. Later, Soviet officials dubbed those so duped as “useful idiots,” a tradition which Roger Cohen of the New York Times recently showed to be very much alive when his regime-managed visit to Iran convinced him what a great place it was. The current upheaval followed …
2009-07-06 … take refugees and all the rest. David Weinberg, of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, says that then-Crown Prince Abdullah first spoke to The New York Times about this in 2001 after 9/11, when the reputation of the Saudis was, shall we say, a bit sullied. It was a shrewd PR attempt to create an image of …
2007-12-09 … producer, Coca-Cola grabbed a bottled water producer for $21 million, and the list goes on. In addition, western investors now had access to what the New York Times called the “war’s glittering prize,” the second largest coal reserves in Europe and large reserves of lead, zinc, gold, silver, and, even …
2009-06-19 According to Frank Rich, of the New York Times, the "Obama-Haters" are getting mighty uppity and their call to resistance is appearing to become "pseudo-Scriptural". Give me a break. You can't …
2008-05-22 Between the story in The New York Times, a piece in the Swiss paper NZZ and 50+ posts in the blogosphere, Armies of Liberation blogger, Jane Novak has managed to procure 1172 signatures …
2006-10-19 … point in that war, might be accurate. Stephanopoulos asked whether the president agreed with the opinion of columnist Tom Friedman, who wrote in The New York Times today that the situation in Iraq may be equivalent to the Tet offensive in Vietnam almost 40 years ago. “He could be right,” the president said, …
2009-06-24 … of Gaza who, a mere six months ago, were treated to a terror war and died in their hundreds. In its search for comments from the “Arab” world, the New York Times published a Syrian activist, Rime Allaf, who spoke the obvious: “Images like the distressing video immortalizing Neda Agha-Soltan as she lay dying …
2009-05-22 … Cardinal who would probably win the prize – his Polish supporter – affairs in France and Germany – Spurgeon’s return – Lord Lorne’s appointment”, The New York Times, January 23, 1892 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/a […] ref=slogin Reply […] The New York Times in 1892 on Ledochowski - Vatican Future War Maximillian …
2009-04-12 … to prison for failing to cooperate in solving the robbery of a Brink's armored car in which two police were killed. Far from remorse, Ayers told The New York Times, in September 2001, that he "wished he could have done more." Ayers only avoided conviction when the evidence against him turned out to be contained …
2009-04-11 … wrote CNS, “they are eager to see him in Rome. Asked when he hoped it would happen, one Vatican official said, ‘As soon as possible.’” CNS Article The New York Times, on December 18, in an article on the Papal message to Obama said that “the Vatican doesn’t want to be at loggerheads with Barack Obama, because it …
2009-07-07 By Glenn Greenwald Monday July 6, 2009 08:07 EDT Courtesy Of The Salon Media Group (Updated Below - Update II - Update III) According to The New York Times this morning, violent clashes between Chinese government forces and Muslim Uighurs -- that country's long-oppressed minority -- have left at least …
2009-07-04 … groups with contacts inside Iran. [8] Burns equated the ramped up spending to “taking a page from the playbook” on Ukraine and Georgia, where, as the New York Times explained,” in those countries the United States gave money to the opposition and pro-democracy groups, some of which later supported the peaceful …
2008-10-13 … [7] The Washington Post says “The economy of Belarus is still state-controlled (and) the nation’s food is grown on collective farms.” [8] And The New York Times points out that “Mr. Lukashenko…has steadily turned Belarus into a miniature version of the Soviet Union itself, with a state-run economy.” [9] Is …
2008-09-04 … would rail against Russian aggression, and wonder histrionically who was next. The Russians did not strike first, as Georgian officials now claim. The New York Times cited evidence from an extensive set of witnesses that Georgia’s military began to pound South Ossetia’s capital, Tskhinvali, with heavy barrages of …
2008-06-24 … that have bedeviled other countries in the region, but because the leader is too stupid to recognize his land reform policies are disastrous. A New York Times story published three days before the March 29 elections shows how Western governments and mass media cooperate with civil society agents on the …
2008-05-20 … Fellowship of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishop’s Conference and the Zimbabwe Council of Churches. The Independent (UK), April 23, 2008. 5. The New York Times, April 26, 2008. 6. The Washington Post, May 16, 2008. 7. TalkZimbabwe.com, April 4, 2008. 8. The Herald (Zimbabwe) May 3, 2008. 9. The New African, …
2008-03-05 … [ago], there were only 19 of us left from my 1973 high school graduating class of 70 or 80 people. Nine out of 10 of them had died of cancer […] The New York Times recently noted that in the case of New Mexico, where the nuclear power industry is seeking to restart uranium mining near a Dine (Navajo) …
2008-11-14 … I point you toward a good article by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Entitled “A Matter of Life and Debt”, Ms. Atwood’s article in the New York Times came at the height of the unraveling of the American financial system in October. I have included it below but you can also find it here. October …
2007-09-27 … President Saddam Hussein during the Iraq-Iran War of 1980-88. The secondary evidence is from the material that can be found in such publications as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. According to O’Neill’s memoirs, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul …
2007-09-26 … in 1992 as the Defense Planning Guidance or Wolfowitz Doctrine. It was so extreme, it was kept under wraps, but not for long. It was leaked to the New York Times causing uproar enough for the elder Bush to shelve it until the neoconservative think tank Project for a New American Century (PNAC) revived it in a …
2007-09-26 … of dealing with Iran, Stephen J. Hadley, President Bush’s national security adviser, said in a meeting on Tuesday with editors and reporters of The New York Times. The issue now, he said, is “at what point the regime, or elements of the regime, say ‘this policy is taking us into a ditch.’” Administration …
2009-06-27 … Council – the powerful body that decides both what bills may become law and who may run for president or parliament.[9] More assorted stuff From the New York Times 3-quarks daily pointed us to this book review: God has mellowed. The God that most Americans worship occasionally gets upset about abortion and gay …
2008-06-26 … that have bedeviled other countries in the region, but because the leader is too stupid to recognize his land reform policies are disastrous. A New York Times story published three days before the March 29 elections shows how Western governments and mass media cooperate with civil society agents on the …
2009-05-08 … OFFICIALS AS NO BETTER THAN SADISTIC ACHAEMENID SATRAPS: Ms. Rice has gone all over the media, trying to rewrite the law all by herself. Let’s quote the New York Times: “Among the many absurd things Ms. Rice did was to offer this argument that torture is legal: “By definition, if it was authorized by the president, …
2009-03-20 … (including the afore mentioned Cohen and Krugman, and some hedge fund fanatics such as Thomas Friedman, the well known pro-invasion propagandist of the New York Times, three times “Pulitzer”). Such inhabitants favor their hometown. The concentration of media within miles of Wall Street make them loving to Wall …
2009-05-20 … stresses the fact that the two politicians "emphasized their differences" (affichent leurs divergences or a mis en évidence leurs divergences) while the New York Times is surprised at their common positions (while claiming that Obama moved more than Netanyahu did). For them there were only "some differences." So, …
2009-06-20 … last July, and, more recently, Jeffery Goldberg's implied endorsement of some kind of attack. (Both were given enormous space in, of all places, the New York Times op-ed section, so the editors should probably be remembered, too.) And who can forget Haaretz's Arie Shavit, who is silent about Iran this week, but …
2009-06-28 Arms control for cyberspace? In a "futuristic" June 27, 2009 article at the New York Times titled U.S. and Russia Differ on a Treaty for Cyberspace, John Markoff and Andrew E. Kramer point to the growing threat of cyberwar: "Officials …
2009-06-23 … conflict of senses in which sight gives us one answer and hearing gives us another answer, which sense prevails - audio or visual? Natalie Angier at the New York Times Science Basics in her article, When an Ear Witness Decides the Case, informs us of a new aspect to human fallibility - sensory conflict: "Spoken …
2009-06-09 The June 8, 2009 LawPundit posting "Who Killed the Electric Car" was featured at the New York Times Headlines Around the Web in connection with the Wikipedia as follows:
2008-12-07 … appointing people to key positions who advocate the same Neo-Con imperialist foreign policy crafted during eight years of the Bush administration. The New York Times, widely recognized as the voice of the establishment Democratic left, set the tone of what we can expect from an Obama foreign policy in a lead …
2009-02-12 Shorten your stay in Purgatory The New York Times reports that the Church of Rome is once again promoting indulgences to its members. Martin Luther, were he alive, would be relieved that one cannot …
2008-12-24 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/weekinreview/21uchitelle.html?_r=1&ref=weekinreview A Trap in Obama’s Spending Plan By LOUIS UCHITELLE New York Times December 21, 2008 As the recession deepens, President-elect Barack Obama is gearing up to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on public investment …
2008-09-08 … FALSE PROPHET. IT IS ALSO BOTH DISINGENUOUS and DISHONEST.] Incremental change will not be enough. The three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the New York Times scoffs at the kind of magazine articles that list "205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth." In the 1990s, global carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.1 percent …
2009-07-08 … to hew to the PR minimum. When they had a 9/11 image problem (15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, remember?), then-Crown Prince Abdullah nattered to The New York Times about "full normalization" with Israel in exchange for "full withdrawal" from the territories. It sounded pretty good. In a flash, Abdullah …
2009-05-13 … to tribal insurgents in the Chittagong Hill Tracks since 1976 was acknowledged by Bimal Chakma—a Shanti Bahini official– in an interview with ‘The New York Times’ in June 11, 1989. India used the insurgents against Bangladesh as a tool to gain political, and economic concessions which she would not othrwise …
2008-10-28 … by the race factor. Obama’s lead in the Newsweek poll is consistent with other recent national polls, including soundings taken by CBS News and the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC News, NBC News, the Wall Street Journal, and by Pew Research, all of which measured Mr Obama’s lead over Mr McCain as …
2008-10-26 … looks or connections, an easy sort of familiarity. In the days leading up to Palin’s pick as vice-presidential nominee, according to an article in The New York Times Magazine today, Rick Davis, who is John McCain’s campaign manager, said a friend had told him how best to choose a running mate: “You get a frame of …
2009-02-19 … 40 percent of those convicted of federal crimes, a percentage that has doubled from 1991 to 2007 (see chart below). And, according to this report in the New York Times, “Of Latino federal offenders, 72 percent are not United States citizens and most were sentenced in courts from one of the four states that border …
2008-02-11 … that could be applied to AGW can be learnt from the story of the “war on cholesterol”, as described (and denounced) by Gary Taubes in the pages of The New York Times: Because medical authorities have always approached the cholesterol hypothesis as a public health issue, rather than as a scientific one, we’re …
2009-06-24 … to Iran to the section above this of just good blogging.) Russell Berman at Telos: The Anatomy of Repression in Iran (and Selective Reporting in the New York Times).
2009-06-24 … Minister Menachem Begin said, “The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs.” A year later, Raphael Eitan, then-Israeli army chief of staff told the New York Times, “When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” At times, …
2008-02-19 … – though there are sizable gaps in southeast and northwest Boise, and a few spotty areas mixed in. Some are concerned about privacy and Google told the New York Times that it allows a user to request an image be removed. Google also noted to the newspaper that it only features imagery taken on public property. …
2008-09-29 So the final draft of the Paulson Plan is out. I find my copy at the New York Times (PDF). It's obviously quite a lengthy document so I'll refrain from too much analysis until I've had chance to read it and catch up on some of the …
2008-09-26 … has been a rather tense and tough week in the financial sector. So this post may end up being pithily concise. This article by David Leonhardt in the New York Times is one of the better analyses I've read. Personally I'm wavering on the plan. The legislature have done a better than expected job in improving the …
2006-06-24 … this economic model as "American?" And why don't they have the right to be pissed, including the right to "demonize" the model they abhor? And now The New York Times reports that Europe is going down the American path of SKY high executive compensation. Quoth the Times: "For decades, Europeans were far more …
2006-03-02 Germans are very much in a huff about the New York Times story saying that their spies passed on information to the Americans on the eve of the Iraq War. Final proof, I think, that while their Chancellor …
2007-03-13 Jack Balkin says that the muffin joke is so funny: Balkinization: Repeat after me: The Muffin Joke is NOT funny: This article [by John Tierney] in the New York Times asserts that the muffin joke is not funny; we only laugh at it because we want to get along with other people in social situations.I disagree. When …
2009-05-14 … in 2003. In May 2003 he was a speaker at the White House Forum on History, Civics and Service Education. He has published articles in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Washington Post as well as in a variety of …
2009-05-14 … the beat for a decade. A dancer with the fanciest feet on the street. A singer who cuts across all boundaries of taste and style and color too".[28] The New York Times called him a "musical phenomenon", saying that "in the world of pop music, there is Michael Jackson and there is everybody else".[31] According to …
2009-05-13 … opposition party and arrested at least two foreign journalists, who were covering the disputed presidential election, including a correspondent for the New York Times.[91][92] On 30 March 2008, Mugabe convened a meeting with his top security officials to discuss his defeat in the elections. According to the …
2009-03-10 … on the other.[32] His viewpoints and methods of achieving them have led to him been designated as a terrorist by scholars,[33][34] journalists from the New York Times,[35][36]the British Broadcasting Corporation,[37] and Qatari news station Al Jazeera,[38] analysts such as Peter Bergen,[39]Michael Scheuer,[40] …
2009-07-06 … week to address such defamation. This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law. The …
2009-07-01 … read in context with the rest of the speech, this single sentence culled from the whole is easily misconstrued. But that is simply not the case. The New York Times helpfully published the entire speech and there is no way, when all is said and done, not to understand that Sotomayor is asserting in a straight …
2009-06-30 … outward to undeveloped parts of the West Bank, according to the officials. Perhaps the Israelis made the mistake of believing what they read in the New York Times. SOURCE […] Black, white and Asian races do exist That black, white and Asian races do exist has always been perfectly obvious …
2009-06-10 … The piece notes that recent televised debates seem to have energized Iranians “as much as any [election] since the Islamic revolution of 1979.” The New York Times reports the state of the Iranian economy has emerged as a defining issue ahead of the vote. EurasiaNet has an analysis arguing that Ahmadinejad may …
2009-05-03 … Just a week earlier, Princeton University economics professor and 2008 Nobel Prize Laureate Paul Krugman, who writes a bi-weekly column for the New York Times, gave rise to speculation on whether Europe’s fourth-richest country – in Pröll’s own definition of income per capita – might in fact be on the …
2009-04-15 … countries. Ireland looks pretty bad because of large financial exposure. And Austria would probably be my third candidate in those leads.” And the New York Times columnist delights himself in his blog two days later of having created a stir by just stating the obvious. Evidently, Krugman’s comment has revived …
2008-07-14 According to a recent article in the New York Times, a committee of the Spanish parliament last month voted to extend “limited rights to our closest biological relatives, the great apes — chimpanzees, …
2008-02-08 In an insightful and provocative story in this weekend’s issue, the New York Times Magazine examines the possible existence and extent of a fetus’ ability to suffer pain while in the womb. While approaching the topic initially from …
2009-07-08 … in the months and years to come, but this article might be helpful in explaining things about Iran to our students. Michael Slackman wrote in The New York Times: As Iran Calms, a Struggle for Political Power Intensifies The streets of Iran have been largely silenced, but a power struggle grinds on behind the …
2009-07-06 … of the unrest? How would they identify the cleavages involved? How would they evaluate the capacity of the state to deal with the dissatisfaction? The New York Times published this story late on 5 July 2009. Riots in Western China Amid Ethnic Tension At least 1,000 rioters clashed with the police on Sunday in a …
2009-06-29 … R. Hunt, a columnist for Bloomberg News, offers another bit of good analysis of Iranian politics in the International Herald Tribune (republished by the New York Times). Much of his analysis is about the politics of American foreign policy, but his ideas on Iranian politics might offer a good teaching model, …
2009-07-08 … in the months and years to come, but this article might be helpful in explaining things about Iran to our students. Michael Slackman wrote in The New York Times: As Iran Calms, a Struggle for Political Power Intensifies The streets of Iran have been largely silenced, but a power struggle grinds on behind the …
2009-07-01 … that "them Jews" are engaged in a genocidal campaign against hapless Palestinians. Called the most influential editorial cartoonist in the world by the New York Times, in March, Oliphant produced a masterpiece worthy of Der Sturmer, depicting a sword-wielding giant goose-stepping as he wheels a fanged Star of …
2009-05-25 … camps and about 500 Jews were killed. In 1945, at the end of World War II, a program against the Jews began and the number of murdered reached 140. The New York Times reported the horrible scenes of babies and old people who had been beaten to death. In the riots that broke out in 1948, the Jews were more …
2009-07-05 … the All Things Digital Conference, which gathers executives and others for “informal but pointed conversations” for an audience of paying customers. The New York Times, too, has considered holding paid business-sponsored forums involving Times journalists, but only on conditions that would avoid any real or …
2004-05-08 … at the 45 private schools agree. Making accusations of racial discrimination for political purposes? Who does Mugabe think he is, Tom DeLay? The New York Times has given this story only a couple of blurbs in its daily World Briefing (right next to, no joke, a story about the death of Max, the South African …
2006-08-01 … theories? When did Bush hatred and conspiracy theories, not bordering on, but right in the heartland of insanity become intellectual topics? The New York Times has overgenerously labeled Mr. Barnett a "skeptic." Really? I thought skeptics were on the sharp edge of Occam's Razor. You be the judge: …
2008-08-08 … thinking about this at the moment - we'll consider it after the mission.'" From the weather, to the displaced people, to articles like this one from the New York Times, detailing how many migrant workers have been ordered out until after the games, the whole dog and pony show creeps me out. Then again, maybe it's …
2007-09-06 … much of it. Then I did a little research on the author. Jeffrey Sachs is a ninja. “Probably the most important economist in the world,” according to the New York Times. He’s presently a Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (and Kofi Annan before that), and has previously advised the IMF, World Bank, …
2007-09-06 … much of it. Then I did a little research on the author. Jeffrey Sachs is a ninja. “Probably the most important economist in the world,” according to the New York Times. He’s presently a Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (and Kofi Annan before that), and has previously advised the IMF, World Bank, …
2009-06-12 … In addition to the Washington Post’s summary of General Petraeus’s remarks, I will add the following points: 1) Petraeus rejected a story from the New York Times that alleged that General Stanley McChrystal was assembling a personal staff “fusion cell” of 400 hand-picked officers. Petraeus said the true …
2009-05-31 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is stuck for the moment in Singapore because his Air Force jet is broken. The New York Times reports on the Secretary’s rapidly rising blood pressure: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was grounded by his own plane on Sunday when the …
2009-05-25 … we wait for this legal story to play out in the years ahead, we can already see the consequences of Rasul v. Bush and its successors. According to the New York Times, it has been over two years since a new detainee has arrived at Guantanamo. The CIA supposedly has no more in its possession. The U.S. has expanded …
2009-05-11 … I discussed in a recent post, I wonder how Lt. Gen. J.B. Dutton of the British Royal Marines, the current ISAF deputy, feels about this development. The New York Times had this reporting on the McKiernan dismissal: Defense officials said that General McKiernan was removed because of what they described as a …
2008-02-25 … like the power of invisibility?" Rather, "Would you like other people to have the power of invisibility?" Well, would you? And Mr. Drum again, on the New York Times: Times reader aren't children. We all know what this means, and we all know perfectly well that the Times piece loudly insinuated some kind of …
2007-02-23 … always assumed the progressive was the slutty, pot-smoking younger cousin of the liberal, but then I read in an (unrelated to this issue) article in the New York Times that many used the term “progressive” as a more P.C. alternative to “liberal” – as a result of conservative attacks on the word “liberal”. So …
2007-05-31 … And when the need arises to attribute, that is a good cue to consult with the department head about whether publication is warranted at all. –The New York Times, Guidelines on Integrity I’ve been reading a bit of Raymond Baker’s Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System …
2007-05-30 … in a quick read-through, but I cannot stomach reading Veja for more than 3 minutes at a time. In the wake of the Judy Miller debacle, Bill Keller of the New York Times issued a memo on “Assuring our Credibility” (June 23, 2005). On sourcing, he wrote: “Our policy on anonymous sources is a good one, and bears …
2007-05-28 … The Mountain and the Molehill and NMM(-TV)SNBCNNBS: Veja X Martins on Globo’s Roda Viva. I tend to think of this as the Larry Rohter Gambit: When the New York Times‘ man in Copacabana wants to feed you noise as signal, he always sources it to “local press soures.” Those “local press sources” almost invariably …
2008-10-29 Oh man an update! Mostly about things you don't care about, i.e. what I thought about on the bus this morning. Deal! First off, there was a guy with the New York Times, and I happened to notice that the front page had a picture of one Barack Obama and one John McCain. Not exactly a surprise, given Current Events, …
2007-04-21 … and the head of the horticulture department at Virginia Tech. Couture-Nowak was passionate about trying to spread the French language, according to The New York times. Bernie MacDonald, an administrator at Nova Scotia Agricultural College where Couture-Nowak taught French, said she was “vibrant, enthusiastic and …
2009-05-23 … memoirs that will offer a collective rebuttal to the many harshly critical works released while the writers were in office and beyond," the New York Times reports. "A person familiar with discussions Mr. Cheney has had with publishers said he was seeking more than $2 million for his advance. That sum …
2009-07-08 … much more if it did, but those same readers still might not buy it if those images were in it, because if it contained such images it couldn't be the New York Times, it couldn't present the portrait of a normal, stable, adequate world - a world not ideal, but still good enough - which it's the function of the …
2009-07-06 … idealization of suburbia, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, attended Hollywood High, a school that is now 75 percent Hispanic and that The New York Times accurately described in 2003 as “a typically overcrowded, vandalism-prone urban campus.”) Granted, a version of the California Good Life can still …
2009-07-04 … it, he posited that many complex systems and problems--from plant and animal morphologies to quantum mechanics--could be reduced to simple rules. In the New York Times, George Johnson proclaimed, "No one has contributed more seminally to this new way of thinking about the world." But Wolfram's own …
2009-07-03 … makes us wonderful without declaring that we're wonderful. Leaving business moguls and Americanists at home, he relied on an entourage of ideas. The New York Times and others have joked that Obama increasingly sounds like a professor in chief, and there's truth to that. But professors need students to sign up …
2009-06-23 … in July, the magazine "will be published as a series of special editions throughout the year and not as a weekly section." And on the same day, the New York Times arrived with a shrunken magazine, as previously announced. Speaking of the Times, this week's Book Review adds a new chapter to the never-ending …
2008-11-30 "Paul Krugman of the New York Times has been on the attack lately in regard to the New Deal. His new book "The Return of Depression Economics," emphasizes the importance of New …
2009-02-27 … the height of the second dotcom bubble, when most of the free websites and services weren’t really living off their ad revenue. Some still aren’t. The New York Times website, for example, couldn’t exist in its current form without the financial and content support from its parent company. I saw this fantasy …
2008-04-06 According to the New York Times, three prominent bloggers suffered serious heart attacks in the past five months — Russell Shaw, Marc Orchant, and Om Malik — with Shaw and Orchant …
2009-01-20 … without some censoring), and gets a bigger publishing platform this month through Soft Skull Press, following features on Knight and taqwacore in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. The story, for me, is surprising and heartening. My interest in punk was always more as a reader and a listener than as …
2009-02-20 … Sinclair Lewis and William Stidger, the model for Elmer Gantry. (h/t Whet Moser) Wednesday marked the 100th anniversary of Wallace Stegner’s birth. The New York Times‘ Timothy Egan recalls how Stegner was screwed over by the Times. The film version of Revolutionary Road tanked at the box office, but the book’s …
2009-02-01 … White has a thoughtful appreciation of Glenway Wescott in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books. It’s not online, unfortunately, but the New York Times catches up with White and his newfound acclaim as a dramatist. D.C. restaurant/bookstore/Democrat-apparatchik-hangout Busboys & Poets enjoyed an …
2009-06-28 The New York Times for once conformed to reality in palpably painting the atmosphere of melancholy that has descended on the city of Tehran like a suffocating blanket. …
2007-07-19 … Fall by Albert Camus by R.E. Prindle […] This novel goes to show that you can fool all the people all the time. The cover blurb of my edition has the New York Times yodeling: ‘An irresistably brilliant examination of the modern conscience.’ which is complete and total nonsense. This isn’t even the examination …
2008-10-11 … platform, Outside.in is a conceptually powerful site that geotags posts from individual bloggers all the way up to large media organisations like the New York Times. Readers gather information through a radar, first looking at the information just around them, then in their neighbourhood, their city, then …
2008-10-05 … When I first picked it up I thought it might have been a collection of thoughts about The Dead Sea Scrolls […] Luc Sante talked about the scroll in The New York Times a couple of months ago: “In 1951, Jack Kerouac feverishly pounded out the first draft of “On the Road” in three weeks on a single huge roll of …
2009-06-26 … say Bloomberg has only himself to blame, having been so generous with pay raises to the city’s 300,000 or so workers. By raising their wages, The New York Times points out, he himself guarantees bigger pensions on retirement. And with pensions typically 50 per cent of salary, the costs are only going to rise …
2008-03-19 … Blei On today, the 5th Anniversary of the War beyond reason or redemption in a faraway land called Iraq…I look at an old clipping on my desk from the New York Times, March 13, 2008, wondering why I saved it. It’s the photo that caught my attention, not the story. I’m tired of the story. The caption under the …
2008-03-19 … are true, “We were duped,” said E., Mr. Kafka’s editor. “The whole story is pure, unadulterated non-fiction. This guy’s a complete con man.” from The New York Times, March 9, 2008
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