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ROMNEY TAKES ON GOP CULTURE WARS
Romney vs. the GOP’s Cultural Warfare Wing By MICHAEL CROWLEY | @CrowleyTIME | May 18, 2012 | 175 inShare Log In with Facebook Sharing TIME stories with friends is easier than ever. Add TIME to your Timeline. Learn More STEVE NESIUS / REUTERS Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney talks to supporters during a campaign rally in St. Petersburg, Florida, May 16, 2012. Fox News is slightly less predictable than its reputation–there’s Shep Smith, and Bill O’Reilly can surprise–but nothing on television resembles authoritarian state-run media quite like Hannity. Nothing about Sean Hannity’s nightly show is either fair or balanced; much … more…
COTTAGE IN A DAY.COM
COTTAGE IN A DAY. COM THE WEEK (2010) 5/7 36 COTTAGEINADAY.COM can put a cottage that will remain stationary on your property in the woods for under 50 thousand dollars and up. At the URL listed above, you will find that most cabins will go up in 3 hours. 11 CATHOLICS IN CRISIS The Roman Catholic churches are losing members due to a number of scandals and related. In Asia and Africa, the numbers are growing, but the rest of the world is closing and consolidating churches. Most of the money come from rich countries that are suffering loses. All … more…
GROWTH OVER AUSTERITY
G8 lean toward Obama growth, not Merkel austerity Not about ‘budging particular leaders,’ says Obama adviser, but about ‘evolution’ Below: x Jump to textLeaders of the world’s richest countries banded together… Text Discuss Related Advertise | AdChoices Open in new window
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SEX AND THE WORKPLACE
The CEO isn’t the one in the office with the best sex life, evidence shows. It’s the hardworking rank and file who are the most active in the bedroom. The boss is usually too busy or too stressed. (Age, however, is not a factor.)
BOYS WILL BE BOYS
Brizendine, L. (2010) THE MALE BRIAN New York: Three Rivers Press Brezidine is the one that told us in THE FEMALE BRAIN (2006) that females are a variation of bi-polar people. Within their moods, they live in a fantasy world where they are told a male will make them live happily ever after. They much prefer children than sex and each new child puts the father further away from the mother. Her message sold tons of books. If she was a tad bit heavy handed on women, the males are just fine. Boys will be boys. She reminds one of … more…
SCIENTIST AS CROOKS
SCIENTISTS AS CROOKS THE ECON0MIST (2010) JUNE 29/ 86-87 Scientist of all persuasions will do faulty research to protect a corporate profit if paid enough. THE OTHER FINANCIAL CRISIS TIME (2020) JUNE 28, VON DREHLE 22-28 Most states are in a financial mess. There should be large cuts in all sectors. The Right says this is proper. The Left says that we need more stimulus money. THE POLITICS OF PARSIMONY NEWSWEEK (2020) JUNE 21, GROSS, 30-31 Please see the same story in the previous article. TOP 5 GROWTH STOCKS BLOOMBERG-BUSINESS WEEK (2010) JUNE 27TH, MURPHY 57-58. Top 5 companies in … more…
APARTMENT THERAPY
Content Section In Newsweek Magazine Apartment Therapy May 14, 2012 1:00 AM EDT ‘Wellness real estate’ for the green 1 percent. Print Email Comments (1) Terry McAuliffe, Deepak Chopra, Dick Gephardt, Dr. Oz, and a team of scientists from Columbia University walk into a luxury Manhattan apartment building … Sounds like the setup to a joke. Actually, it’s Delos, the organization behind an ultrapricey futuristic condominium development in Greenwich Village that will be completed by the end of this year. All these luminaries have been part of the project. The building’s amenities make the Jetsons look Amish. Delos pumps vitamin … more…
TOP 1%
The very rich in America increasingly work in finance, marry each other and care passionately about politics Jan 21st 2012 | from the print edition MITT ROMNEY is not the first multi-millionaire to seek the presidency, nor the richest. Ross Perot, the record-holder, spent some of his billions earned from computer data on losing bids in 1992 and 1996. Since then men who owe their or their family’s fortunes to oil, sport, publishing, trial law, ketchup, beer and bestselling autobiographies have followed. But Mr Romney, who earned his $200m or so as a private-equity executive buying and selling companies, is … more…
CROWDED PRISONS
JERRY BROWN can point to only one clear policy achievement since he became governor of California again last year. It has nothing to do with California’s ongoing fiscal crisis, which Mr Brown has so far failed to solve: this week he announced that a budget deficit he had previously estimated at $9 billion has swelled to almost $16 billion. Instead, it concerns the equally pressing disaster in the state’s prisons. Mr Brown’s sweeping reform, if it goes as planned, might alleviate this crisis and become a model for other states. But it is risky. Excessive incarceration is an American problem. … more…
PUBLIC COMPANY/FACEBOOK
AS THIS newspaper went to press, Facebook was about to become a public company. It will be one of the biggest stockmarket flotations ever: the social-networking giant expects investors to value it at $100 billion or so. The news raises several questions, from “Is it worth that much?” to “What will it do next?” But the most intriguing question is what Facebook’s flotation tells us about the state of the public company itself. At first glance, all is well. The public company was invented in the mid-19th century to provide the giants of the industrial age with capital. That Facebook … more…
