Julie Barbour-Issa calls her eight-year-old cellphone “the dinosaur. It’s a brick, and I could use it as a weapon in an emergency,” says the 30-year-old Norwood, Mass., civil engineer. While most consumers rush to get new smartphones every 12 to 17 months, a few holdouts cling to obsolete cellphones and other tech gear that is [...]
GILAN, Iran (Catholic Online) – Last year we reported on the former Muslim, now Protestant Christian Pastor in Iran named Youcef Nadarkhani. He was sentenced to death in the Islamic Republic of Iran for the crime of apostasy. He was given a death sentence for becoming a Christian and then refusing to convert back to [...]
Perhaps it’s not the best time to review two convertibles as temperatures start creeping from mild to hellish, and the instrument display reads 40 degrees. A shade would be good respite, if only humidity levels weren’t so high that today’s weather should really be classified as precipitation. Yet I was thrown the keys to two [...]
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Story By: by Fred Barnes President Barack Obama embraces Speaker of the House John Boehner before delivering remarks during a dinner with bipartisan Congressional leaders in the East Room of the White House May 2, 2011 in Washington, DC. Read Another Opinion About How Campaign Strategy In This Election Season Fred Barnes is executive editor [...]
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By JOE LIGHT Printed on the front of Fabrice Tourre’s performance review was a message: “Not intended for disclosure outside the firm.” At Senate hearings last week he and a few other Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executives learned there was an exception: Congress. As they grilled the executives about their roles in the financial crisis, [...]
“Mama, what did you used to do with Grandma Heather on Mother’s Day?” asks my four-year-old as we sat down to brunch. Pause. Swallow. Breathe deeply. “Well, we did lots of things,” I reply. “We were lucky to have a lot of Mother’s Days with her. Sometimes we used to take her out to brunch [...]
The obituaries for Hilton Kramer, the celebrated art critic who died last month, all made prominent mention of his devastatingly terse appraisals of those artists and institutions whose work he found wanting. It was Mr. Kramer, for instance, who dismissed the Whitney Museum of American Art’s biennial exhibitions as “funky, kinky, kitschy claptrap.” But he [...]
By MELISSA KORN Peter Tufano does his homework. Before taking office as dean of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford last July, the former Harvard Business School professor interviewed more than 250 students, faculty, staff, alumni and others to better understand the institution, and read sociology books about Britain. Enlarge Image Close Rob [...]