LIVE BLOGGING UPDATE:
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Kodak Theatre. (Photo: Monica Almeida/The New York Times)
9:55 p.m. | And Scene: Mr. Obama, again the gentleman, holds Mrs. Clinton’s chair as she gets up, as this debate concludes.
9:53 p.m. | Dream Team: By far the biggest applause of the night come when Mr. Blitzer [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 31, 2008
LIVE BLOGGING THE L.A. OBAMA-CLINTON DEBATE
January 31, 2008
A DYING BREED
Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
Herd Extinct: The Ankole cow could disappear within 50 years.
By ANDREW RICE
Published: January 27, 2008
GERSHOM MUGIRA COMES from a long line of cattle-keepers. His people, the Bahima, are thought to have migrated into the hilly grasslands of western Uganda more than a thousand years ago, alongside a hardy breed [...]
January 31, 2008
PICTURES REVEAL MERCURY’S TUMULTUOUS PAST
By WARREN E. LEARY
Published: January 31, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Messenger spacecraft that zipped past Mercury two weeks ago found more evidence of the innermost planet’s turbulent past, including ridges that run hundreds of miles and a unique feature made up of more than 100 troughs radiating in all directions, scientists said Wednesday.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied [...]
January 31, 2008
FROM THE ARCHIVES: IN U.S. NAME COUNT, GARCIAS ARE CATCHING UP WITH JONESES
By SAM ROBERTS
Published: November 17, 2007
Step aside Moore and Taylor. Welcome Garcia and Rodriguez.Smith remains the most common surname in the United States, according to a new analysis released yesterday by the Census Bureau. But for the first time, two Hispanic surnames — Garcia and Rodriguez — are among the top 10 most common in [...]
January 31, 2008
GREATNESS BY DESIGN AND THE ‘SOULS OF BLACK GIRLS’
This comment was left on my “About Me” page of my blog, from Blanche Williams.
Follow the links to get acquainted with the upcoming production of the February 8 film screenings of “THE SOULS OF BLACK GIRLS”:
“Greatness By Design, LLC & Blanche Williams cordianlly invites all my sisters to the February film screenings of “THE SOULS [...]
January 31, 2008
A SURVEY ON ‘SOCIAL CAPITAL’
This comment was left on my post, “Race, Gender…and ‘Honorary Whiteness”, http://kathmanduk2.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/race-genderand-honorary-whiteness/ today.
Anyone interested in filling out the survey may click on the link provided to take the survey.
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January 31, 2008
ETHNIC PRESS COVERS THE RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE
January 31, 2008
By Fernanda Santos
Will Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s endorsement of Senator Barack Obama sway Irish-Americans? What about The Irish Voice’s endorsement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton? Could Mr. Obama become a household name among Chinese-American voters? Will American relations with Russia and Pakistan affect immigrant voters here? And can any Republican contender distance himself [...]
January 31, 2008
2 ACCUSED OF KEEPING GIRL, 13, AS PROSTITUTE
By BRUCE LAMBERT
Published: January 31, 2008
A police detective and his female companion kidnapped a 13-year-old runaway girl and forced her into prostitution with 20 men at private parties, the authorities said on Wednesday.The detective, Wayne Taylor, 35, and his companion, Zalika Brown, 29, of 173-37 Vaswani Avenue in Jamaica, were charged with kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, [...]
January 31, 2008
HOLOCAUST CARNIVAL FLOAT SHOCKS BRAZILIANS
HOLOCAUST FLOAT CAUSES CARNIVAL CONCERN
Updated 09.57 Thu Jan 31 2008
A dance school has been causing controversy in Brazil with a carnival float commemorating the Holocaust.The float, made by the Viradouro Samba School, is part of a “shockers” theme and features a pile of emaciated dead bodies.
“I consider it an extremely successful float, because it will [...]
January 31, 2008
FORMER NEW YORK MAYOR DINKINS SUPPORTS HILLARY CLINTON
January 31, 2008
Why Dinkins Supports Clinton
By Jonathan P. Hicks
Mayor David N. Dinkins campaigned with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Representative Charles B. Rangel at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., on Jan. 25. (Photo: Todd Heisler for The New York Times)
On rare occasions, David N. Dinkins says, he is approached by New Yorkers who ask him [...]
