Jeff Flake, the Republican senator from Arizona, in a speech that may be taught to future high school students, assuming the cowardice of which he speaks hasn’t by then reduced us all to rubble: “It is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end.” Thetransc...
Chrissy Teigenis known for her wit, but she was at a loss for words when a paparazzo compared her husband,John Legend, to a monkey. The 31-year-old model says she was approached by a photographer atJohn F. KennedyAirport in New York on Thursday who turned a seemingly innocent interview...
Rhode Island, his brother, Robert, served as his best man. But that best man got a little wild. According to Evan Thomas’sRobert Kennedy: His Life, Bobby “behaved like a naughty teenager, stealing a policeman’s hat” on his brother’s wedding day. “Joe Kennedy was furious. He summ...
[Item by Mike Kennedy.]At theA.V. Club, Tom Breihan is considering “the most important superhero movie of every year” in a series entitled “Age of Heroes.” Breihan is up to 2008 and asks, “Does the most important year for superhero movies belong toThe Dark KnightorIron Man?” Mid...
[Thanks to Mike Kennedy, Andrew Porter, John King Tarpinian, Jean-Paul L. Garnier, Olav Rokne, Rich Lynch, Chris Barkley, Michael Toman, Cat Eldridge, and SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day Daniel Der...
[Thanks to Mike Kennedy, Daniel Dern, Michael Toman, John King Tarpinian, Joe Siclari, James Davis Nicoll, Martin Morse Wooster, JJ, Cat Eldridge, Ben Bird Person, John Hertz, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Matthew...
Netflix opens the door to marketing partnerships.Yes, I’m aware that the smart money has moved on from this idea. But in a nod to increasing competition and the reality of Wall St. expectations, Netflix will at least pilot a program — likely not in the US — where it works...
(while openly flouting Prohibition laws), and taking numerous pleasure trips to Europe. He easily won reelection in 1929, but when the stock market crashed later that year his hijinks began to wear a bit thin, and reform-minded politicians like State SenatorSamuel H. Hofstadterbegan looking ...
“Senator Lieberman’s love of God, his family, and America endured throughout his life of service in the public interest.” /jlne.ws/4acamos China Envoy Says Economic Competition Is the New Climate Risk Bloomberg News Economic competition between nations has become the new hurdle in the ...
Massad, a current research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, opined on “How to Regulate Stablecoins Without Passing Any New Laws.” Gordon Bennett has been named Environmental Finance’s Sustainable Business Leader of the Year, recognized for his role in expanding ICE’s ...