Emily Berl for The Wall Street Journal Jose Cosme shows his fruit and vegetables to philanthropist Laurie Tisch, in the South Bronx. Laurie Tisch is going to the Super Bowl, but first she had to pick up some vegetables in the Bronx. “Thursday I’m on the friends and family charter,” she reported. “Hopefully I’ll make [...]
Story By: by Rajiv Chandrasekaran A photo from an unknown location of New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid, who died Feb. 16 of an asthma while reporting in Syria. Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor of Foreign Policy. In the summer of 2003, when the rest of the press corps in Baghdad [...]
Dubai: US Open champion Samantha Stosur of Australia is targeting winning more Grand Slams as she sets about putting her recent disappointments behind her. Stosur had a phenomenal 2011 that was highlighted by her defeat of Serena Williams for her first Grand Slam title at the US Open — the first Australian to win at [...]
CULVER CITY, Calif. $885,000 A roughly 1,800-square-foot apartment with two bedrooms and two baths, downtown Fit for Foodies View Slideshow Louis Leal Culver City, California home. DETAILS: This contemporary condominium unit has an open-plan kitchen-and-living area and a covered terrace. The fourth-floor apartment is part of a 2009 mixed-use building that has 18 units and [...]
By MELISSA KORN When Tufts University launched its Master’s in International Business program four years ago, it was focused on one thing: global context. Joe Schram/The Wall Street Journal Bhaskar Chakravorti For starters, the two-year degree is housed at the Fletcher School, which specializes in international affairs, not business. (Tufts doesn’t have a business school.) [...]
Tuba el-Zangaria Mosque Arson Saga Comes to a Close Published by: The Yeshiva World News (www.theyeshivaworld.com)
By FRANCIS X. ROCCA Rome Leonardo da Vinci’s only documented stay in Rome, from 1513 to 1516, was not one of his happier or more productive periods. By contrast with his preceding stints in Milan, where he enjoyed unquestioned pre-eminence and produced the great paintings currently on view at London’s National Gallery, Leonardo’s time at [...]
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – The decision by India to continue importing from Tehran in spite of Western sanctions shines uncomfortable light on the powerful nationalist sentiments among the Chinese. China remains Tehran’s largest trading partner and biggest oil customer. Cooperation from China is crucial to the West’s plan to use the embargo to [...]
A few eyebrows were raised last month when disgruntled Liverpool cinemagoers to the Oscar-nominated “The Artist” demanded their money back, saying they weren’t told it was a silent film. While their actions are a little strong, as a wine writer, I can empathize. When was the last time you bought a bottle of wine only [...]