Dialogic (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pirates BBC Radio: World Service Documentaries Part One Nick Rankin takes a journey through history looking at pirates past, present and future. Part Two Nick Rankin travels to Africa to find out how modern day pirates are ruling the high seas. Part Three Nick Rankin explores the world of intellectual piracy - the stealing of ideas. To Listen to the Episodes
Rock The Truth (Free subscription) | yesterday
Once a liar, always a liar : Back in custody: Samuel Israel, the convicted founder of hedge fund firm Bayou Group LLC. (Steven Lee Miller/Bloomberg News) Also see : The Bush-Israel Analogy "Convict says 2d suicide try was real" by Bloomberg News | July 4, 2008 NEW YORK - Samuel Israel, the convicted founder of hedge fund firm Bayou Group LLC who faked suicide and jumped bail rather than face 20 years...
the 13th juror (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo taken by Margaret Bourke-White in 1951 "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless , tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Just wanted to remind everyone that Statue of Liberty -- which represents liberty and escape from oppression -- welcomes the homeless, too.
Market Power (Free subscription) | yesterday
Via Greg Mankiw comes this from Robert Frank on inequality: According to research by Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist, quoted in an article in the Washington Post, "being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less...
Catwalk Queen (Free subscription) | yesterday
Long-time pals Kate Moss and Mario Testino obviously have a great working relationship, but that doesn't stop the famed photographer from telling it like it is...
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wednesday night (July 2, 2008), La Cigale in Paris hosted the third global Smirnoff Experience event, showcasing a dream collaboration between Mark Ronson and Duran Duran ...
LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON -- Lawyers representing Osama bin Laden's former driver asked a federal judge Thursday to halt his fast-approaching military trial so they can continue challenging the legality of the military commission system.Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been fighting his detention in federal court since 2004.Declared an enemy combatant by a...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jay-Z continued his London party marathon by hosting a bash at posh eaterie Automat in Mayfair, ahead of last night's O2 Wireless show.
Afrigator (Free subscription) | yesterday
This lavishly illustrated survey presents the work of nearly 120 international artists at the forefront of the boom in photography, among them Elina Brotherus, Tacita Dean, Luc Delahaye, Alec Soth, Jens Ullrich and Michael Wesely. Each artist is introduced by an essay, followed by four pages of their superbly reproduced work. This is a valuable and forward-looking reference book for photographers,...
NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | yesterday
Glenn McDuffie may have spent the past 25 or 30 years in Houston, but he's still a Carolina boy born in a mill house at Cannon Mills and raised on Packard Avenue in Kannapolis, just up the street from some of the world's greatest race car drivers.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lawyers for Osama bin Laden's former driver asked a civilian judge Thursday to delay his military trial.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | yesterday
BERLIN.- Beginning on July 4, 2008, the Neue Nationalgalerie will feature the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto in what constitutes the most comprehensive retrospective of his fascinating oeuvre to be presented up to now in German-speaking countries. Berlin is the third station of a tour which also goes to Düsseldorf, Salzburg and Lucerne. The exhibition consists of more than seventy photographs,...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
The long legal story of the Bush administration's effort to prosecute detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, now has two fast-moving subplots, and either one could soon write something of a final chapter.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was surprised to discover Davena Rankin was "selected" as Conservative candidate for the Glasgow East by-election (your report, 2 July). I now understand the
I'm not gay (Free subscription) | yesterday
We are sorry to announce that some stuff is going on that is going to delay everything for a few days. Normal service will resume shortly, in the mean time have a look at this smashing beard. It's James Robertson Justice if you don't know.
