Zimbabwe, it is fair to say, is a nation poorly served by its government:The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe which has left hundreds dead was caused by the UK, an ally of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said. Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu described the outbreak as a...
Oh, dear:Bernard L. Madoff, a former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market and a force in Wall Street trading for nearly 50 years, was arrested by federal agents Thursday, a.
My heart cries out:It is impossible to quantify how many affluent parents have trimmed allowances in recent months — or how many of their offspring, in turn, have sought either.
There are a bunch of ways to analyze this. One is to compare the most similar players to Sabathia at the same age. The most similar is Dave McNally, who at the same point in his career had 70 wins left in his arm. So that...
Perhaps Scott will have something to say about this deal from the other side. I've got some mixed feelings about it, but I think it's a small net positive for.
Public health scare edition.
I had only been to MSG once before, so it was very nice last weekend to see the Flames somehow eke out a victory despite barely leaving their own zone in the second period thoroughly dominate the hopelessly overmatched Rangers. After such an abect humilation you...
The War on (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs continues its roaring success:Killings linked to Mexico’s drug war have more than doubled this year compared with 2007 and.
Leaving aside his wanktastic politics, one thing that was never clear to me was exactly what credentials Bob Kerrey had to run a university. I know fundraising is very important.
The Most Inane Punditry of 2008.I'm glad to say I'd never even heard of some of these items. For example:"Well, here's the other thing that we saw on the tape, Chris, is that, when Obama went in, he was offered coffee, and he said, 'I'll have...
If Ben Wittes is indeed serving as an adviser to the Obama transition team, let's hope the President-elect has the good sense not to listen to anything he has to.
Is the F-22 Raptor too big to fail in these tough economic times?Without further spending for the F-22, companies that supply critical components for it would begin shutting down soon..