Last week, Asia Society had to delay the press preview for its Mariko Mori show after "typhoon conditions" delayed the Japanese artist's arrival in New York. Five days later, the Upper East Side museum has happier news to report: its exhibition of Buddhist art from Pakistan, delayed for six months because of political turmoil Read More
Late Friday night, according to his now-infamous Twitter feed, Keith Urbahn toasted the end of the work week with a tall mint julep on a warm Washington evening, made from mint from his garden and 1792 small-batch Kentucky bourbon.
By the end of the weekend, Mr. Urbahn, 27, had become a minor celebrity in Read More
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said she felt "extraordinary joy" at hearing the news about the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan yesterday.
"It's a moment of triumph and I think it's very important for New Yorkers," she said in an interview on CBS' Early Show this morning. She said she had spoken to some firefighters and Read More
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand reiterated her support of the July 2011 Afghanistan withdrawal date, despite Republican pressure to move the date back, in a conference call with reporters about her recent trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan this afternoon. She said the withdrawal date is useful as "a political tool."
"It creates a sense of urgency on Read More
In a phone interview yesterday, Gillibrand also showed herself to be seriously engaged Read More
It would be, Mr. Obama said, “a new beginning—a new dawn of Read More
New York joins the world in mourning the horrific and senseless terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week, during which over 188 people lost their lives, and grief and fear flooded India’s financial capital. As home to one of the world’s most flourishing communities of Indian émigrés, New York shares a brotherly bond with Mumbai, now Read More
Today, The New York Times' Brooks Barnes offered a hard-hitting A1 investigative report on how Angelina Jolie manipulates the press, especially how she uses access to her family to further her own agenda.
Writes Mr. Barnes:
Shifting the focus is one of Ms. Jolie’s best maneuvers, magazine editors and publicity executives say. When she became Read More
As the bromides and bunkum of primary season lurch into caucus-eve overdrive in Iowa, the rest of the world has upstaged the election-addled news cycle. A new Osama bin Laden video, a Colombian hostage crisis and—most of all—the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto have made weary onlookers newly aware that there will Read More
Here's Markey:
"Some of the candidates have in the past -- Read More
Hundreds of journalists working in Pakistan, including the editors of several major national papers, got together in Lahore the other day to demonstrate against a governmental blackout of news channels. The blackout is the result of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Ordinance, which is being enforced as part of the emegency rule Read More
In the midst of the Iraqi civil war that missed happening and the Dubai port takeover that shouldn’t happen, the Bush administration helped midwife something very right that will have good effects for many decades. President Bush met with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and welcomed India formally into the nuclear club. India was a Read More
In the midst of the Iraqi civil war that missed happening and the Dubai port takeover that shouldn’t happen, the Bush administration helped midwife something very right that will have good effects for many decades. President Bush met with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and welcomed India formally into the nuclear club. India was a Read More
I have been accused by baffled friends of perpetrating endless home renovations because I unconsciously crave discomfort. The charge is not unreasonable. Since buying a small West Village townhouse in the fall of 1999, I’ve been working on it most of the time—not working literally, except for a little painting and cement and some grunt Read More
Every rare once in a while, a moment comes along that so
perfectly sums a mind-set, nothing's left to be said. Take the other day, when a Reuters correspondent phoned the headquartersof Bush/Cheney '04, looking for some info on "job quality"-an oxymoron for millions since Jan. 20, 2001. Whoever took the call apparently forgot to punch Read More