Wall Street Journal
October 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 interview with head of ABC Daytime, Brian Frons, posted on The Wall Street Journal website that ...
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October 1, 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 covers of women’s magazines. What’s a dieter to do?The Daily Sam would like to help. But ...
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February 19, 2009
- Simpsons characters pictured in a mob revolt with tourches. Image Credit: The SimpsonsLet The Revolution BeginIt's ironic that Barack Obama, whose friends were disciples Saul Alinsky, an ardent social revolutionist, becomes president and sparks a revolution toward conservative American Values.A revolt might be happening already and the signs of this revolt began yesterday. First in Arizona ...
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January 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 rarified journals but, as she was on the front page this past week, in such respected newspapers as the ...
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January 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 rarified journals but, as she was on the front page this past week, in such respected newspapers as the ...
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November 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 the Big Three U.S. automakers “arrived before Congress in corporate jets with tin cups in ...
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November 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 man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” In what strikes us as a timely ...
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July 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 opinions about heroes and battles against evil.On the rope of life, heroes climb ...
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July 7, 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. Above, the Cipriani 42nd Street was the elegant venue for the Loeb awards; below left, the author and ...
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June 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 who was there at the beginning of the women's movement, this was a rather exciting headline. ...
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