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Did Bill Clinton arrange for special treatment with Kazakhstan's President, Nursultan Nazarbayev for Canadian businessman Frank Giustra,...

The inevitable seems to have happened, according to an AP report. Rudy Giuliani is dropping out of the race for the Presidency. He ran such...

Can't say enough nice things about our 48 hours in Montreal visiting old college friends at -19 degrees Celsius. The city has really bee...

President George W. Bush's announced "stimulus package" to give every American between $300 and $1200 (numbers subject to chan...

Joshua Foust reports on Registan.net that Sweden's most famous furniture store--already established in Moscow--has opened in Kazakhstan...

Saw The Kite Runner over the holiday weekend. Haunting. Marc Forster's direction is subdued, and unobtrusive, a welcome change from ex...

Today's Washington Post also runs an interesting article on Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Henry Louis Gates' multi-volume African A...

Here's an article from today's Washington Post by Allison Silberberg (who was in the Theatre program at UCLA when I was there) abou...

Last night, thinking I had rented a Russian-language film from Netflix to practice my vocabulary, I watched the most interesting documentar...

News reports about a Google foundation headed by University of Michigan smallpox expert Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant , led us to this web...

( Artist & Model c. 1930s) Last weekend,we went to the annual DC Flea Market at Dulles Expo Center, near the airport--known as "Bi...

From 2 Blowhards : So today, I offer Franz Bischoff, an artist who made his mark in two fields: ceramic decoration and easel painting. There...

John & David made it safely to Kathmandu, coming in 14th out of 64 contestants. Full story here: http://mercycorpsrickshaw.blogspot.com/...

Here's a link to an inspirational story about Drs. Vance and Vince Moss from Saturday's Washington Post : The doted-on sons of Josep...

"Golden Velvet Beer--It's the Tops!" That's Edward G. Robinson's advertising slogan for Remy Marko's formerly boot...

John and David have reached Nepal...more on their blog, here: http://mercycorpsrickshaw.blogspot.com/

Tonight's 60 Minutes featured Lesley Stahl's interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg . After watching the exchange, I'll...

Recent news reports quote President Bush as saying that FDR should have bombed Auschwitz, during his visit to Israel's Yad Vashem museum...

Our favorite Cuban-American filmmaker has done a music video for Luisa Maria Guell, from her 2007 Grammy-nominated UNA , based on the Tango,...

Lynn Smith published her article in today's Los Angeles Times about PBS''s attempt to reach younger viewers by re-branding Mast...