Don't write off Palin as VP - Guardian Unlimited
Pub. Date - Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:50:00 GMT
In one of Barack Obama's biggest applause lines in Denver on Thursday , he said John McCain had voted with George Bush "90% of the time" and warned, "I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a 10% chance on change." Now McCain has made his ... Lifetime Networks' Nonpartisan Every Woman Counts Campaign Heads to ... - Forbes
Pub. Date - Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:55:00 GMT
A day-long summit with women elected officials, journalists and advocates will be held for winners of Lifetime's Future Frontrunners essay and video contest to identify the next generation of women leaders. The competition for high school and college ... Wagner Clans Face Off Over Bayreuth Top Job: Shirley Apthorp - Bloomberg
Pub. Date - Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:16:00 GMT
Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Battles among the descendants of Richard Wagner have long been as embittered and complex as his 18- hour music drama ``Der Ring des Nibelungen.'' Last weekend, Belgian manager Gerard Mortier made a surprise grab for the ... SMU artist-in-residence Chee-Yun Kim plays and shops with the passion ... - Dallas Morning News
Pub. Date - Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:38:00 GMT
SMU artist-in-residence Chee-Yun Kim plays and shops with the passion of a virtuoso 05:50 PM CDT on Friday, August 29, 2008 By DAVID NINH / The Dallas Morning News dninh@dallasnews.com Mob rule: The phenomenon of flash mobbing - The Independent
Pub. Date - Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:53:00 GMT
They appear in public places as if by chance, perform random acts of communal silliness, then disappear. Madeleine North celebrates five years of flash mobbing – and reflects on the joyful pointlessness of it all It started five years ago, in the ... Bertelsmann's 6-month profit reaches euro284M - BusinessWeek
Pub. Date - Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:24:00 GMT
Bertelsmann AG, the owner of book publisher Random House, said Thursday that its six-month net profit soared dramatically from a year ago -- though a higher euro hurt sales at its units. The privately held company earned euro284 million ($419.4 ... Swimmer aims to kayak to N Pole - BBC UK News
Pub. Date - Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:19:00 GMT
Long-distance swimmer Lewis Pugh plans to kayak 1200km (745 miles) to the North Pole to raise awareness of how global warming has melted the ice sheet. The BBC's Jonah Fisher met him at his training camp in Cape Town, South Africa. Lewis Pugh has ... News - Digital Media - CNET News
Pub. Date - Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:53:00 GMT
Beleaguered online-music pioneer Napster announced to shareholders in a letter Friday that it's still employing investment bank UBS and may be positioning itself for "strategic alternatives" to keeping the company public--i.e. a sale. The letter was ... Jackson at 50 Still Young (and Crazy) at Heart - Dose.ca
Pub. Date - Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:15:00 GMT
It's time to celebrate five decades of bad plastic surgery jokes, batshit insanity and, oh yeah, some of the best grooves of the '80s, because Michael Jackson turns 50 today. And even though the king of pop trainwrecks has been recently spotted ... 2008 U.S. Open Results: Jelena Jankovic Hangs on to Beat Jie Zheng to ... - Transworld News
Pub. Date - Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:54:00 GMT
Jelena Jankovic had a fight on her hands in the third round of the 2008 U.S. Open but the #2 managed to hang on and beat Jie Zheng in two sets, 7-5, 7-5 on Friday to advance to the fourth round. Jankovic struggled with her serve throughout the match ... | 
