http://fathergarage.com Political News Delivered Daily Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:06:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://fathergarage.com/2010/11/08/a-quant-in-love-boaz-weinstein-and-tali-farhadian/ http://fathergarage.com/2010/11/08/a-quant-in-love-boaz-weinstein-and-tali-farhadian/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:00:54 +0000 freshcontentengine.com http://usafinances.freshcontentengine.com/a-quant-in-love-boaz-weinstein-and-tali-farhadian/ Boaz Ronald Weinstein and Tali Farimah Farhadian were married on Saturday evening at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan. Rabbi James E. Ponet performed the ceremony, with Cantor Angela Warnick Buchdahl taking part, The New York Times reports. Mr. Weinstein, the bridegroom, is the founder of Saba Capital Management, an investment firm in Manhattan. He is [...]

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]]> http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/26/citi%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98big-love%e2%80%99-for-terra-firma-emerges-at-trial/feed/ 0 http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/26/citi%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98big-love%e2%80%99-for-terra-firma-emerges-at-trial/ http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/26/citi%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98big-love%e2%80%99-for-terra-firma-emerges-at-trial/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:17:22 +0000 freshcontentengine.com http://usafinances.freshcontentengine.com/citis-big-love-for-terra-firma-emerges-at-trial/ Brendan McDermid/Reuters David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner One of America’s top trial lawyers faced off against one of Britain’s top investment bankers in a Manhattan federal courtroom late on Monday in crucial testimony that could determine the fate of the EMI Group, the music giant. David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, pictured, [...]

]]> http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/26/citi%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98big-love%e2%80%99-for-terra-firma-emerges-at-trial/feed/ 0 http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/19/campaign-ads-take-nastier-more-personal-turn-in-midterms/ http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/19/campaign-ads-take-nastier-more-personal-turn-in-midterms/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:03:01 +0000 freshcontentengine.com http://uspolitical.freshcontentengine.com/campaign-ads-take-nastier-more-personal-turn-in-midterms/ They say all’s fair in love and politics. Well, in politics these days, it’s also pretty ugly. Not only is spending on ads hitting record levels, but personal attacks seem to be reaching all-time highs for nastiness. Last week in Colorado we’ve seen President Obama portrayed as a terrorist, illegal immigrant, gambler and homosexual all [...]

]]> http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/19/campaign-ads-take-nastier-more-personal-turn-in-midterms/feed/ 0 http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/04/from-paris-with-love-the-french-are-concerned-for-us/ http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/04/from-paris-with-love-the-french-are-concerned-for-us/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:07:47 +0000 freshcontentengine.com http://uspolitical.freshcontentengine.com/from-paris-with-love-the-french-are-concerned-for-us/ A revelation about French perspectives of the United States and our politics emerged last month in a Paris suburb as I sat on a movie theater stage with three other American authors. We four born in the U.S.A. panelists came to that upper-middle-class suburb of Vincennes – think Bethesda, Md., or Wash(ington) Park in Denver [...]

]]> http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/04/from-paris-with-love-the-french-are-concerned-for-us/feed/ 0 http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/04/from-paris-with-love-the-french-are-concerned-for-us-2/ http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/04/from-paris-with-love-the-french-are-concerned-for-us-2/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:07:47 +0000 freshcontentengine.com http://uspolitical.freshcontentengine.com/from-paris-with-love-the-french-are-concerned-for-us/ A revelation about French perspectives of the United States and our politics emerged last month in a Paris suburb as I sat on a movie theater stage with three other American authors. We four born in the U.S.A. panelists came to that upper-middle-class suburb of Vincennes – think Bethesda, Md., or Wash(ington) Park in Denver [...]

]]> http://fathergarage.com/2010/10/04/from-paris-with-love-the-french-are-concerned-for-us-2/feed/ 0 http://fathergarage.com/2010/09/21/on-6-month-birthday-of-health-law-will-patient-protections-win-it-some-love/ http://fathergarage.com/2010/09/21/on-6-month-birthday-of-health-law-will-patient-protections-win-it-some-love/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:40:51 +0000 freshcontentengine.com http://uspolitical.freshcontentengine.com/on-6-month-birthday-of-health-law-will-patient-protections-win-it-some-love/ Like it or not, Americans are getting new health insurance benefits this week. Who among us would say no to free preventive care? To banishing lifetime limits on coverage? To making sure little kids with medical problems can get insurance, and big kids with no insurance — up to age 26 – can stay on [...]

]]> http://fathergarage.com/2010/09/21/on-6-month-birthday-of-health-law-will-patient-protections-win-it-some-love/feed/ 0 http://fathergarage.com/2010/08/16/if-your-husband-invites-you-to-see-%e2%80%98eat-pray-love%e2%80%99-meditate-on-it/ http://fathergarage.com/2010/08/16/if-your-husband-invites-you-to-see-%e2%80%98eat-pray-love%e2%80%99-meditate-on-it/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:42:33 +0000 freshcontentengine.com http://uspolitical.freshcontentengine.com/if-your-husband-invites-you-to-see-eat-pray-love-meditate-on-it/ When a man claiming to be my husband asked if I wanted to see “Eat Pray Love” with him this weekend, of course I played along. That the best-selling book was una stronzata of the first order hadn’t kept me from enjoying it, and I hoped the movie would be bad in a good way, [...]

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]]> http://fathergarage.com/2010/08/15/%e2%80%9ceat-pray-love%e2%80%9d-escape-for-the-common-woman/feed/ 0 http://fathergarage.com/2010/08/14/%e2%80%98eat-pray-love%e2%80%99-author-to-lobby-congress-for-bi-national-gay-spouse-rights/ http://fathergarage.com/2010/08/14/%e2%80%98eat-pray-love%e2%80%99-author-to-lobby-congress-for-bi-national-gay-spouse-rights/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:49:34 +0000 freshcontentengine.com http://uspolitical.freshcontentengine.com/eat-pray-love-author-to-lobby-congress-for-bi-national-gay-spouse-rights/ Call it “Eat, Pray, Love, Lobby.” On Sept. 30, Elizabeth Gilbert — author of the monster bestseller “Eat, Pray, Love” and the heroine of the gorpy new Julia Roberts-Javier Bardem flick of the same name — will follow the path trod by countless other celebs seeking civic enlightenment: She’ll lobby House and Senate members on [...]

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