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Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Telegraph.co.uk Serena Williams Cruises to Wimbledon Victory New York Times The Williams family dream, developed about 20 years ago on the courts of Compton, Calif., littered with broken-glass, has played out on every major championship surface since. On the Fourth of July, Serena and Venus Williams, ... Serena wins Wimbledon title over sister Venus FOXSports.com Serena eclipses Venus in Wimbledon...
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 34 minutes ago
Edgar Martins via New York Times We have been discussing Whither the McMansion , wondering about their future; their present is equally troubling. The New York Times sent photographer Edgar Martins across America to document "the physical evidence of the real estate bust." It is an appalling scene of excess and waste....
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hectorshona (Free subscription) | yesterday
Telegraph.co.uk Astana Has a Leader (Maybe Two) New York Times “If Alberto is better,” Lance Armstrong, right, said earlier this week of his Astana teammate, Alberto Contador, “I will ride for him.” By JULIET MACUR MONACO — As his riders made final preparations for the Tour de France, the Astana team manager, ... Armstrong Just May Take a Back Seat Washington Post...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
"They removed him over fears that he was trying to undermine the Constitution and extend his tenure."
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drbexl searches the 'net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not that I'm excited by this or anything! Read more on my WordPress blog relating to the Keep Calm and Carry On posters etc.!
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REDNECK CATHOLIC (Free subscription) | yesterday
The New York Times has published an article, on the front page, no less, about the Apostolic visitation of the Leadership cousel of Women Religious. The newspaper says that many nuns are afraid that it some sort of doctrinal inquisition. Gee, what made them think that? Perhaps the fact that the CDF is running it, and called it a"Doctrinal Inquirey"? And if they are in fact orthodox...
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Pioneer Theater Google Group (Free subscription) | yesterday
While Americans sweat the fate of independent film at places like Sundance or South by Southwest, movie-mad Nigerians flock to the outdoor electronic markets of Lagos to buy the latest offerings from Nollywood.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
TheStreet.com: Michael Wolff has written in Vanity Fair that you want to buy The New York Times (NYT Quote), that you've planned out the deal in detail. Is that true? Murdoch: No. That's nonsense. I don't think it's for sale anyway. I haven't even thought about it. But I would imagine that it would be legally and politically almost impossible, so I'm not thinking about it. More on Newspapers...
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Opinionated Catholic (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Anchoress has a major post on this that is very good. See Nuns & Sisters & bad hymns . She has a line here I love (which I bold in Red ). Here is a part A few people yesterday asked me to comment on the NY Times piece, but I really have nothing to say. The only reason this is a story at all is because of a rather notoriously unwelcoming (and yes, paranoid) email (approved-for publication...
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Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | yesterday
In hardcover: Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Angel's Game debuts at number 3. For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . Laurell K. Hamilton's Skin Trade is down five positions, ending its third week at number 11. Charlaine Harris' Dead and Gone is down one spot, finishing its seventh week on the charts at number 13. Stephenie Meyer's The Host is down four positions, ending the week at...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | yesterday
Flaming Eggheads: In the current New Yorker , Malcolm Gladwell gives an energetic pan to Chris Anderson's Free: The Future of a Radical Price . As Anil Dash points out , there's a vehement tone to Gladwell's review that suggests some harder feelings at work than you'd expect in a standard piece of intra-Condé Nast logrolling. Anderson has replied somewhat snippily too. (Disclosure: I know Anderson...
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Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
Telegraph.co.uk UN Chief to Seek Release of Suu Kyi New York Times The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, arrived in Myanmar on Friday for a journey he has said will be difficult as he seeks the release of the jailed pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, or at least a meeting with her. ... Suu Kyi trial postponed CNN International UN's Ban meets with Myanmar's junta supremo...
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Twilight Treasury (Free subscription) | yesterday
As well as 'Twilight', there have been a spate of recent popular vampire series, such as the televisation of 'The Southern Vampire' series into 'True Blood' & LJ Smith's 'The Vampire Diaries' (I've read them all and recommend you do if you haven't). So, now The New York Times explores the reasons why they have become so popular - “The vampire is the new James Dean,” said Julie...
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Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The July 2 New York Times print edition has this editorial, calling for various types of election law reform, including ballot access reform.
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | yesterday
Late at Night and Hard at WorkNew York TimesHad Cubic Zirconia emerged sometime between 1983 and 1986, the era that it most plainly covets, it would have found a neat home amid the …and more »
