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Oct.12.2009
Last August, blogger Sara Bibel noted that "buried within the addictive train wreck" of reaction (here and here), to the firing of Soap Opera Weekly editor, Carolyn Hinsey, was "some serious commentary about soap opera journalism." This past August, it was fan reaction to an...
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Oct.01.2009
Many of us are thinking about dieting because we feel like bloated, unhealthy, repulsive blobs. The question is, what’s the best diet for me? Or, for that matter, you? There are actually more diets available today then there are human beings on the planet, leading to considerable confusion on the...
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Feb.19.2009
Simpsons characters pictured in a mob revolt with tourches. Image Credit: The Simpsons
Let The Revolution Begin
It's ironic that Barack Obama, whose friends were disciples Saul Alinsky, an ardent social revolutionist, becomes president and sparks a revolution toward conservative American...
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Jan.17.2009
It was a true thrill to reunite with a college friend I had not seen for fifty years at her lecture/book signing in Los Angeles the other night. The college friend was Dr. Ruth Wisse, now a distinguished Harvard professor whose opinions about the Jewish people and Israel are quoted not only in...
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Jan.17.2009
It was a true thrill to reunite with a college friend I had not seen for fifty years at her lecture/book signing in Los Angeles the other night. The college friend was Dr. Ruth Wisse, now a distinguished Harvard professor whose opinions about the Jewish people and Israel are quoted not only in...
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Nov.22.2008
Picture this cartoon: An impeccably-groomed CEO emerges from his chauffeured limo to join the line outside the welfare office. In front of him stand others of his ilk, waiting impatiently to pick up a check.
With very little exaggeration, that was the scene in Washington this week as the chiefs of...
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Nov.11.2008
A Q&A With Novelist and Skadden Lawyer, G. Carlos Smith
By Dan Slater
To finish up this historic week, let’s take one more look at Proposition 8 in California. Again, voters approved the initiative, which adds to the state constitution the following sentence: “only marriage between a...
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Jul.25.2008
“Holy W, Batman! You’re like Bush?” The Wall Street Journal has run a piece comparing the trials and tribulations of Batman to those of President Bush. Wow! Was that a bat signal in the sky, or the letter “W?” If you want to read the article and comments, go to WSJ.com Forums. I have my own...
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Jul.07.2008
The Gerald Loeb Awards are the Oscars of the financial and business journalism world. And this year’s award ceremony took place in the suitably glamorous setting of Cipriani 42nd Street – the former Bowery Savings Bank built in 1921, just a few years before the market crash of 1929.
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Jun.25.2008
The June 24th Wall Street Journal carried this blurb in the front-page What's News column: A woman has been chosen for promotion to the rank of four-star general for the first time in American history.
For someone whose novel features the wives of four new army officers in the spring of 1970 and...
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