A manly aviator, describing a nicely snug aircraft, might allow that it’s a good jet to “strap on,” like you might strap on a knapsack. The B-1 bomber is like that. It’s big, roughly the size of a Boeing 707 passenger jet. But when you’ve squeezed up the narrow ladder from the tarmac into the [...]
If the mortgage mess had an address, it could be 450 American Way. This enormous white building, nestled among the hills about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, used to be a warehouse for Bugle Boy jeans. Today, it contains a sea of beige cubicles that seem to stretch on forever. Inside the complex, 4,000 [...]
Newsweek, the venerable but declining news magazine, has joined forces with the new media by merging with the Daily Beast, a politics-oriented website co-founded by its celebrity editor, Tina Brown. Called the Newsweek Daily Beast Co., the joint venture was announced Friday by IAC, the Barry Diller company that owns the Daily Beast, which is [...]
This week on Politics Daily’s online Sunday show, Woman UP, Patricia Murphy, Jill Lawrence, Bonnie Erbe and I discuss Nancy Pelosi’s decision to run for minority leader. And why, after protracted complaining that Democrats had focused on the wrong thing – passing health care reform instead of creating jobs – did Republicans spend the days [...]
Appearing on “The Daily Show” Wednesday evening, President Obama defended his record on the economy, health care reform and the administration’s ability to meet the extraordinary expectations of those who elected him less than two years ago. “When we promised during the campaign ‘change you can believe in,’ it wasn’t change you can believe in [...]
Marking the first time a sitting president has appeared on “The Daily Show,” on Wednesday evening President Obama will sit down with host Jon Stewart at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington to tape an episode of the popular Comedy Central show. (The interview will air later, at 11 p.m.) It’s not the [...]
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