Features
Monday, October 25 2004
Breakfast of Champions
Washington, DC ain't for the faint-hearted. This is the school of hard knocks, baby. In DC, they eat politicians, lawyers, and other movers-and-shakers for breakfast. New York has nothing over DC.
Columns
Tuesday, May 2 2006
The Anchor Wars
Their best anchors gone, now, their viewership bailing for Internet sources, US network news programs find themselves drifting.
Wednesday, March 8 2006
We Meet Again, Mr... Bond?
Will audiences bond with the new blond bond? Or will this Bond bomb?
Thursday, September 29 2005
What Keeps Me Burning
We've all got to die someday. 'Till then, why not light(en) up?
Monday, July 25 2005
Iran: Dancing in the Spotlight
A joke among Iranian exiles is that since the revolution, Iran takes one step forward and three steps back. With Ahmadinejad's election, it appears Iran is doing this shuffle, again.
Wednesday, June 1 2005
Don't Shoot the Messenger
Taghizadeh defends Al Jazeera, the best source for news from and for the Arab world.
Reviews
Tuesday, September 21 2004
Hoax: Why Americans are Suckered by White House Lies by Nicholas von Hoffman
Von Hoffman rings the death knell for the 'American Century', claiming that despite its current braggadocio and so-called victories in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US has failed in its effort to bring any stability to the region.
Tuesday, August 10 2004
Condensed Knowledge by Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur, and Elizabeth Hunt
Pearson and Maloney credit the success of both the magazine and the book to the original motto: that of successfully 'blurring the lines between education and entertainment'.
Tuesday, April 27 2004
Everyone Comes to Elaine's by A. E. Hotchner
Henry Kissinger once said that the best thing about celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. But what happens if celebrities bore each other?"
Tuesday, February 24 2004
Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill by Jessica Stern
Perhaps the most telling sentence in the book is at the very beginning: 'Religious terrorism arises from pain and loss and from impatience with a God who is slow to respond to our plight, who doesn't answer.'"
Tuesday, November 11 2003
The Rat Pack: Neon Nights With the Kings of Cool by Lawrence J. Quirk and William Schoell
These guys were the first to embody the definition of "cool," and no entertainer since has managed to successfully emulate or capture their powerful allure.
