On Our Radar Today (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
On Colin Powell and Human Capital New York Times Blogs, NY - 14 minutes ago By Stephen J. Dubner We blogged a while back about how human capital can shift from one industry to others, especially when there’sa major ...
Freakonomics (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Wright, a precise and logical conversationalist, doesn’t just vaguely sympathize with the former secretary of state. He frames Powell as a squandered asset. “You know, when an F-16 crashes and a pilot is killed, you always hear about the cost of the training of the pilot and what a great loss it is,” he says. “Powell was a weapon that was developed over half a century, and millions of...
John Hope Bryant (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Marguerite Kondracke, Mr. and Mrs. Powell and Mr. and Mrs. Bryant at dinner My sweetie, Mrs. Sheila Kennedy Bryant, and I were honored to spend an evening over dinner with Mrs. Alma Powell, chairwoman of the America's Promise Alliance, and...
Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Petina Gappah read my article on John Pilger calling Obama an Uncle Tom and says: Wow. Double wow. Mr. Pilger seems to expect black people everywhere to think the same, in fact, to view the world in his terms, and if not they are servants and slaves of other people. I guess Colin Powell, Barack Obama, and the [...]
St Francis Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of Colin Powell's best moves as Secretary of State was to pull out of the 2001 United Nations Durban confab against racism once it became an anti-Semitic rant. One of the best moves the new U.S. administration and Europe could make is to stay away from the follow-up meeting altogether. "Durban II," planned for April in Geneva, promises to be an encore of the same old Israel-bashing....
Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jeffrey Wright (Fred Prouser/Reuters) Hey, is that Jeffrey Wright? The acclaimed actor looks different in just about every role -- this fall, he was Colin Powell in "W" and CIA agent Felix Leiter in "Quantum of Solace." And we barely recognized him at Tuesday's local premiere of "Cadillac Records,"...
Funtasticus.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... of government in a new, reinvented way designed to bring greater services to the American people. COLIN POWELL: Now at the left of the screen, you clearly see the satellite image the chicken crossing the road. HANZ BLIX (Head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission) : We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed access...
Aftermath News (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... over these years,” Alexander Haig, former Secretary of State in the Reagan administration, teased Colin Powell, Secretary of State during President George W. Bush’s first term, recounted a party in which Kissinger escorted Princess Diana. “Have you ever seen Henry escort a beautiful woman around? It’s something to behold,” said Powell. “He escorts her through the room, making...
Ben Byerly's Blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
... Woods may have helped, and one of the comments on his Reconciliation blog post says: “I think Colin Powell and Condelezza Rice should be given some credit, too. We saw Bryant Gumbel on the morning news every day for several years. It all works together. Shirley Chisholm. Barbara Jordan. Andrew Young.” Who would you add to this list? What popular images have shaped some of your perceptions?...
Moving at the Speed of Creativity (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... then chronologically listed and linked on XTimeline ? Here’s an XTimeline example of the life of Colin Powell . Most entries are six words or less. Click and drag the timeline from right to left to view it, or use the horizontal “elevator” at the bottom to move laterally forward on the timeline. Click each event to view more information about it, along with a related photo. The Flickr...
Palin Campaign 2008 (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... 9/11, including former secretary of homeland security Tom Ridge and former secretary of state Colin Powell, and with many of the innocent people whose lives have been upended by the new border security and visa rules. A pediatric heart surgeon from Pakistan is stuck in Karachi for nearly a year, awaiting the security review that would allow him to return to the United States to take...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
... wanting more. Wright, who's getting some well-earned recognition this fall (he's also in "W." as Colin Powell and "Quantum of Solace"), finds the low-key soul of the man everyone calls Mud, who transforms easily from street musician playing what other black people dismissively call "sharecropper music" to star. The ever-loose Brody, whose Chess strokes a female singer's behind with...
Tax Research UK (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
I gather that the recently announced review of UK tax havens is to be run by Michael Foot, a former Bank of England and FSA person. I’m sure he’s an honourable person, but this does not fill me with hope. As Colin Powell of the Jersey Financial Services Commission told me today, for we were at [...]
TIME: Top Nation Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to attend key meetings called by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Secretary of State Colin Powell, for all his star power, was all but frozen out of the real decision-making—and the foreign leaders he visited knew it. And Vice President Dick Cheney was a power center unto himself. "You look at the team that George W. Bush brought in, and they also were very talented and...
Technoccult (Free subscription) | yesterday
... before the Suck N’ Drawl seige upon the people of Baghdad back in March of 2003 the oft thoughtful Colin Powell had this precocious warning to offer the Bushies about the cluster fuck they were about to embark this country upon: “You break it, you buy it.” Let us all hope in the next life we are not judged by the people we allowed to maintain control over this beautiful world. Edited...
