Apr 16 2008
My Wall Street Journal, a parody of the Wall Street Journal on newsstands this week to mark the April 15 tax deadline, has rankled News Corp executives so much that they’re trying to make sure no one sees it. The New York Times’ Richard...
Apr 14 2008
The teenage survivors of a bus crash that killed five young women on a gap-year adventure in Ecuador were preparing to return to Britain last night after telling their parents that they could not continue their trip in light of the tragedy. A group...
Apr 12 2008
t’s amazing how much the f-word has become part of our daily dialogue in American culture. It can be used in a sentence as an adjective, noun and an adverb.
Apr 12 2008
Last summer, in Detroit’s St. Paul Church of God in Christ, I watched Bill Cosby summon his inner Malcolm X. It was a hot July evening. Cosby was speaking to an audience of black men dressed in everything from Enyce T-shirts or polos to blazers and...
Apr 12 2008
Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the United Nations, has indicated he will skip the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics this summer, capping an extraordinary week of public relations disasters for the Chinese government as it struggles to...
Apr 10 2008
Microsoft on Thursday plans to introduce a Web-based service for driving directions that incorporates complex software models to help users avoid traffic jams.
Apr 10 2008
The owners of a Perris, Calif., elephant ranch say an artist has set what is believed to be a world record for the largest mammal to be enclosed in a bubble.
Apr 10 2008
Tampa officials have asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit seeking $22 million in payment of a debt incurred during the Civil War. In legal papers, the city contends Joan Kennedy Biddle is way too late to try to collect, The Tampa Tribune reported.
Apr 10 2008
Researchers at Damballa Inc have uncovered evidence of a powerful new botnet they’ve nicknamed Kraken. The company estimates that Kraken has infected 400,000 systems, which would make it twice the size of Storm during that botnet’s hayday....
Apr 10 2008
Sixteen people died in Baghdad’s Sadr City as fresh clashes broke out between security forces and Shiite militiamen in the capital on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. The city’s Green Zone, which houses diplomatic...