MRod says: (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the gifts in this year’s Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog is the “Algonquin Round Table Experience” which is a private dinner party for the buyer and their guest with the following distinguished VIPs. Christopher Buckley Roz Chast Delia Ephron Nora Ephron Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Malcolm Gladwell Adam Gopnik Lewis H. Lapham John Lithgow Anna Deavere Smith George Stephanopoulos...
Scene B Seen (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
On Thursday, November 19th, The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers hosted Project Morry's 13th Annual Autumn Elegance Gala to honor Henry Louis Gates, Jr . Project Morry is an ongoing program dedicated to giving inner-city children enriching learning opportunities through a curriculum based on school meetings and an intensive summer camp program . This nonprofit organization focuses on giving children an...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Earlier this month, News Corp. president Rupert Murdoch said that President Obama made “a very racist comment” when Obama inserted himself into the July spat between Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Officer Jim Crowley. Murdoch also said Fox News host Glenn Beck “was right” to say Obama is a “racist” with a “deep-seated hatred [...]
Althouse (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Politico reports: “I don't think it will be offensive at all when [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is] convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him,” Obama told NBC’s Chuck Todd. When Todd asked Obama if he was interfering in the trial process by declaring that Mohammed will be executed, Obama, a former constitutional law professor, insisted that he wasn’t trying to dictate...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
From Slate: Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data even if it gets us in trouble. Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges' instructions and go look...
Chasing Evil (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Murdoch: Glenn Beck Was ‘Right’ To Say Obama Is ‘A Racist’ With ‘A Deep-Seated Hatred For White People’: " After President Obama inserted himself into the July spat between Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Officer Jim Crowley, Glenn Beck infamously declared on Fox & Friends that Obama “exposed himself” with the incident “as a guy, over...
Freedom's Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Here is video of Rupert Murdoch - chairman of News Corp, which owns Fox News - saying that Glenn Beck's comments about President Obama and racism were "right" if you actually "assess what he was talking about." Murdoch made the statement in Sky News interview. Glenn Beck said he believed Obama is a "racist" based on Obama's attack on Cambridge, Massachusetts police in...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
After President Obama inserted himself into the July spat between Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Officer Jim Crowley, Glenn Beck infamously declared on Fox & Friends that Obama “exposed himself” with the incident “as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or white culture.” Challenged [...]
Bostonist (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Sunday, November 8 All day: Harvard Book Store ’s annual frequent buyer sale. Customers who have signed up for a Frequent Buyer Card BEFORE November 8th will be eligible to receive 20% off all purchases of new, used and bargain books, as well as data-based Print on Demand titles and non-book items throughout the store. Monday, November 9 12:00 pm, UMass Boston Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room...
No Time for Poetry? (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Making the life and work of Phillis Wheatley more available to the public has been one of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s recent preoccupations. His The Trials of Phillis Wheatley (2003), based on the Jefferson Lectures in Humanities that he delivered at the Library of Congress in 2002, will come out in paperback in 2010. The cover flap of the first edition of the book states: "The slave Phillis
Legal Profession Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I've just pre-ordered a copy of Louis Menand's new book The Marketplace of Ideas, part of the "Issues of our Time" series edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., based on the taste I got from the...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
CBS' Mark Knoller tweets this pic this morning: "Trick or Treat. Gremlins, goblins and Knoller. (Mark o' Lantern by Fernando Suarez , CBS News)." Some more Washingtonian's Halloween costumes , including Fox's Greta van Susteren : "I had planned on going as either Anderson Cooper or Glenn Beck . As for my husband, John? He was planning on going as Sally Quinn ." We'd like to see...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and police Sgt. James Crowley reportedly shared another beer Wednesday night following their widely publicized gathering at the White House over the summer to quell a national uproar over a racially charged local dispute.
American Conservative Daily (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and police Sgt. James Crowley reportedly shared another beer Wednesday night following their widely publicized gathering at the White House over the summer to quell a national uproar over a racially charged local dispute.
Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard and Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police were spotted together at a pub in on Thursday, just a few months after their meeting with President Obama and Vice President Biden at the...
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