Hiring a top political consultant is a little like hiring a literary agent: If your book is half-way decent you can count on some favorable and helpful blurbs for the book jacket from the agent’s other well-known clients.
This logrolling approach appears to be working nicely for Caroline Kennedy. Word came yesterday that Kennedy who is [...]
Looking at some of the most popular Chinese stocks, you could be forgiven for being a bit nostalgic about the good old days which weren’t all that long ago when triple-digit percentage gains in a short period of time seemed to be the birthright of shareholders who ventured into China.
Those triple-digit gains had a lot [...]
The group was flying to Las Vegas for a week-long vacation courtesy of the bustling city itself.
The lucky winners could not be happier.
“A few weeks prior to finding out that we were going to Vegas, we were talking about that we were going to get married in Vegas by an Elvis impersonator and this just [...]
It was starting to snow lightly as we pulled into the Grand Summit Hotel at Sunday River in Newry, Maine, on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
Sunday River is always on my ‘A’ list for early-season skiing. They have a huge snowmaking system, and the new owner, Boyne Resorts, isn’t afraid to light it up.
That’s when the [...]
This year, the presents under radio station KNDD’s tree included a few Guns, a Cold War, some Killers and a Death Cab. Ah, holiday cheer.
Actually, the only danger Tuesday night, apart from getting a bit too toasty in an unseasonably warm WaMu Theater, came from becoming overexcited at the prospect of seeing two of indie [...]
The local volunteers, many of them college students, will teach water safety, swimming, first aid, CPR and other lifesaving techniques there as part of Swim India, a Tucson-based non-profit group.
India has lifeguards but they oftentimes are just fishermen who aren’t trained the way lifeguards are in the U.S., said Benjamin Schaub, Swim India’s executive director.
Schaub [...]
Southwest Airlines Co. unveiled a new flight schedule on Tuesday that will eliminate 13 flights from the airline’s late spring-early summer schedule.
Dallas-based Southwest (LUV) says the schedule, which runs from Sept. 9 through June 26, 2009, will eliminate 32 existing round-trip flights and add 19 round-trip flights for a total loss of 13 flights from [...]
U.S. President George W. Bush strongly defended his foreign policy Tuesday in his final visit to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, as president.
The president asserted that, in the more than 7 years since the9/11 attacks, the nation and its allies had “applied the full range of military and intelligence assets” to [...]
Kwik Trip Inc. extended its agreement with Category One for its eRFX reverse auction platform to support the next two years of sourcing.
“Over the last two years, Category One has delivered their technology flawlessly with virtually no down time and great Web site performance,” said Bob Thorud, vice president at Kwik Trip, in a released [...]
Palmer rolled into the U.N. climate conference in his solar car Thursday, a man with a mission: To prove that the world can continue its love affair with the car without burning any polluting fossil fuels and still enjoy a smooth ride.
While some 11,000 delegates sought an ambitious new climate change deal to slash emissions [...]
