At a Vanity Fair and Bloomberg event in Manhattan on Wednesday night, audience members were delighted by an impromptu ( and slightly coerced) appearance by Morgan Stanley CEO, John Mack, who called for far more stringent policing of Wall Street.
Mack, sitting inconspicuously amongst a crowd of business journos...
Posted October 21, 2009 | 15:27:05 (EST)
It begins with a dank, grimy toilet. Well, a camera and a toilet. And of the two people standing beside the stained porcelain, only one of them wants to be there. The woman taking the photograph -- she definitely does not. But she's doing it for the man who is...
Posted October 5, 2009 | 01:02:28 (EST)
26,000 electronic music fans gathered at Randall's Island Park over the Labor Day weekend for the inaugural Electric Zoo Music Festival, the first get-together of its kind in New York -- a city used to seeing rock and folk bands descend on its various stages for festivals like All...
Posted August 17, 2009 | 13:52:36 (EST)
As a journalist in Afghanistan, or Pakistan... Or Iraq. Or any other war-ravaged land where you don't speak the language, let alone the dialect of the region in which you're expected to unearth and unravel a never-before-told story, there is only one way to get that story: you hire a...
Posted July 20, 2009 | 13:26:31 (EST)
In 1954, Charleston High School was ordered, like every other school in the country, to desegregate. Integration was instantaneous at some schools, happened a year or two later at others, and then, of course, there were determined stragglers; schools that used the Supreme Court's 1955 declaration of desegregation at "all...

Posted November 18, 2009 | 22:22:56 (EST)