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Trig Palin is an American blessing, not a prop.
Barack Obama would lead us straight into a brave new world.
The real Obama -- the man beyond the feel-good symbol -- is a far-left radical.
Eva S. Moskowitz, someday mayoral aspirant, is running a fast-growing chain of Harlem charter schools.
Before he signed the term limits bill, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg heard from scores of witnesses who opposed it.
Despite billions upon billions of dollars in losses in the financial industry, there still appear to be some people on Wall Street who are optimistic about their year-end bonuses. An online survey conducted last month by eFinancialCareers.com, a career Web site, found that more than a third of the 1,400 people who responded said they expected [...].
A military jury has convicted a man who was accused of being an aide of Osama bin Laden and making propaganda videos for al-Qaida in the second Guantanamo war crimes trial.
Entries from a money manager and an economist shed light on their thinking about prediction markets.
Just as the "green jobs" machine starts revving up, another hot political issue is arriving at its doorstep: illegal immigration.
The magic of Bootle and one of Europe's largest scrapheaps have lost Liverpool a lucrative contract with cruise ships bound for the Amazon and other exotic destinations. Tour operator TUI Travel is withdrawing its liner Thomson Celebration from a berth nicknamed the Costa Metallica by holiday reps frustrated with the pace of progress in cleaning up the industrial shoreline of the Mersey.The move, at a time when recession is threatening the holiday business and cruises in particular, means an estimated £4.5m loss in port fees for the once-bustling river. It follows a couple of trial cruises based at Bootle's Langton Dock earlier this year, one of which spent three days moored by the scrapyard because of heavy seas and bad weather.TUI's planned programme of 30 cruises from Liverpool, which would have taken in Greenland and continental European ports, was the city's biggest passenger shipping operation since the heyday of transatlantic liners ended in the mid-1960s. Its withdrawal, to a new base likely to be either on the Tyne or at Southampton, follows prolonged negotiations with the city and Peel Holdings, which runs the Port of Liverpool. Although The Thomson Celebration's 1,300 passengers could enjoy the attractions of this year's European capital of culture, the cruises had to start from the modest Bootle docks rather than the famous Pierhead. The new £17m Pierhead terminal is designed to take only "port of call" cruises rather than ships needing a permanent base.David Selby, director of cruising for TUI, blamed a collapse in hopes of using the new terminal while regeneration of the lower Mersey continues on both banks. He said: "Naturally, we were disappointed that so many local people have not had the opportunity to use such a great facility."Customer satisfaction is of paramount importance to us. Therefore, Thomson Cruises felt that it would not be able to offer the quality of service its customers have come to expect if obliged to sail out of Langton Dock. This being the case, it was decided not to continue with this itinerary."A spokesman for Liverpool city council said that the Pierhead terminal was bound by European competition laws because public money had been used to build it. He added: "It is also limited to 'port-of-call' ships because it does not have customs or immigration facilities. These are provided by Peel Ports at Langton Dock."Liverpool's year in the cultural limelight has been given extra glitz by cruise visits, including one from the QE2 on its farewell tour. Recent renovation has restored much of the infrastructure which the city installed in the Cunard era, when ships such as the Mauretania and Lusitania sailed from the Mersey.Travel & leisureguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
What did Bill Ayers see in Barack Obama that made him donate campaign cash?
Former RFK aide Bartle Bull gores Obama at Manhattan McCain rally.
Lessons learned from a positive experience with assisted living.
Theyre not going to turn this Buckeye into an ACORN, you can guarantee that.
Jane Fonda will make her return to Broadway, after a 46-year absence, in "33 Variations," a new play by Moisés Kaufman.
Madelyn Dunham, the grandmother who was the anchor in the life of the child that was Barack Obama, died today just hours before polling stations opened in America's historic election."It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer," Obama said in a joint statement with his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng."She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength and humility."Dunham, 86, had been in poor health for the duration of Obama's campaign - though he has often said that she followed politics avidly.Just two weeks ago, her grandson took a break from campaigning to visit her at her modest apartment block in central Honolulu after she fell and broke her hip.Some had seen the hiatus at such a critical time as a political risk to Obama, but the Democrat said that one of his greatest regrets was his failure to be with his mother when she was dying of ovarian cancer.He also admitted then he was not sure that his grandmother would live to see election day.In his memoir, Obama credited Dunham for giving him the stability he might otherwise have lacked, being raised without a father and by a mother who travelled between Hawaii and Indonesia. He returned from Indonesia to live with his grandparents when he was 10, and Dunham enrolled him in the exclusive Punahou school in Hawaii.Friends had described Dunham, who was originally from Kansas, as an example of strength and determination. She worked her way up for a clerical job to a management position at the Bank of Hawaii.Obama mentioned Dunham regularly on the campaign trail, often to emphasise his connection to the white Kansas heartland.But the Democrat also admitted that his relationship with his white grandmother was complicated. In his landmark speech on race last April, he acknowledged his grandmother, for all her strengths, had attitudes on race that at times made him cringe.Dunham's death leaves Obama with only one remaining link to his childhood in his younger sister, Maya, who lives in Hawaii.US elections 2008Barack ObamaDemocratsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
The election of the first black president would inevitably alter views of race in America.
The U.S. Geological Survey says a significant earthquake has jolted the ocean floor near Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands
France calls for a stronger UN mandate in DR Congo, as civilians caught in the conflict are in urgent need of aid.
What makes a game easy? How about an unlimited amount of lives? How about an unlimited amount of continues after you lost all your lives? How about a seemingly never ending amount of energy? There is something noticeable about all these traits that make a video game easy. All these traits are embodied in most new video games that are released...
Obviously, her wobbly television interviews haven't helped. Nor have the drip, drip of scandals from Alaska, which have tarnished her reformist image. But Palin's problems run deeper, and they say something fundamental about the political age being born. Palin's brand is culture war, and in America today culture war no longer sells.
(Photo: Mary-Kate Olsen, right, and Ashley autograph their book (Evan Agostini/Associated Press)) A few weeks ago one of the commenters instructed me to "stick to books," so today I'm going to write about the Olsen twins. Mary-Kate (the one on "Weeds") and Ashley (the one on Maxim's Hot 100 list) have just come out [...].
"Is religion good for the world?" Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David J. Wolpe debated the question before a large crowd at Temple Emanu-El.
Bill Walsh had strong opinions about the relationship between GMs and coaches.