His address at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan today, entitled "Renewing American Competitiveness," is, on one level, another version of the core message of his campaign: that a vote for him is one for the future while a vote for John McCain Read More
Hillary Clinton just sent a formal public letter to Barack Obama calling on him to work to find a resolution to the Florida and Michigan question that reflects the votes in those states and seats their delegations at the convention. She also attempts to shame him for what she calls his failure to "support those Read More
Until now, his approach has essentially been to bury his head in the sand in the hope that the whole matter would just go away—which is would have, had Obama finished off Hillary Clinton is Tuesday's voting.
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Barack Obama should support this aim.
Realistically, any Clinton nomination scenario at this point requires the inclusion of lopsidedly pro-Hillary delegations from Michigan Read More
But by Tuesday night, after the results from what is only the third major contest of the nominating season Read More
"I like cuteness in my babies and puppies, but not in my comedy,” said the actor and comedian Andy Richter. It was less than a week before the March 15 premiere of his new show, Andy Barker, P.I., on NBC, and the 40-year-old Mr. Richter was reflecting on the current state of situation comedy. “There’s Read More
The private-equity trader had to have the pumpkin-shaped doorknob in every room. He’d just bought an 1856 townhouse in the West Village, and he and his architect came upon a distinctive period knob in the apartment of one of the rent-regulated tenants that came with the building. They wanted to replica te it—not just in Read More
The Rudy Giuliani campaign just finished up a conference call to announce the support of Representative Candice S. Miller of Michigan, who said that Rudy would be most "ready" of all the candidates to deal with a "worst case scenario." In yet another preview of Giuliani line on his for 2008 on his liberal social Read More
Back in 1986, it seemed that a lot of us—and by us, I mean late-twentysomething and early-thirtysomething publishing employees in New York—were drifting. Relationships were sputtering or had foundered, our jobs felt undetermined, and we spent a lot of time over drinks in bars, wondering about the sudden journalistic appetite for glitz and money in Read More
“Not to compare myself to Simone de Beauvoir—who is, you know, this vast intellectual heroine—but I remember reading something that she said about when The Second Sex came out in France, and that she just was mocked to death,” said the author, professor, former video artist and feminist pundit Laura Kipnis. It was the eve Read More
Ralph's Director Responds To the Editor: What was the purpose of Sara Vilkomerson’s piece on Ralph Fiennes [“After His Tony Loss, How Fiennes Is Ralph?”, June 19, 2006], devoted largely to a prurient rehashing of gossip about his personal life? When Ms. Vilkomerson did bother to discuss his work, she chose to focus on Read More
Ralph's Director Responds
To the Editor: What was the purpose of Sara Vilkomerson’s piece on Ralph Fiennes [“After His Tony Loss, How Fiennes Is Ralph?”, June 19, 2006], devoted largely to a prurient rehashing of gossip about his personal life? When Ms. Vilkomerson did bother to discuss his work, she chose to focus on listing Read MoreAs Bernard-Henri Lévy strolled along the edge of a field in Michigan abutting Highway 94, a police car pulled up. Told by the cop that “it is forbidden to stop on highways, to hang around, to dawdle, to piss,” Mr. Lévy identified himself. The cop was unimpressed. But his face lit up when Mr. Lévy Read More
The architecture Web log Archinect links to an article in AsianWeek.com about original World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki's endangered studio in Michigan. (Archinect's Steven Ward notes the story is "complete with a quote by George Takei [of Star Trek fame] and a whacked-out collage of Yamasaki's projects.") With the World Trade Center Read More
What has happened in this country? The Pentagon has a secret court created by the Foreign Intelligence Services Act (FISA). The courtroom is in a windowless room on the top floor of the Department of Justice. There are seven rotating judges. The court meets in secret, with no published opinions or public records. No one, Read More
