2001

In Priase of My Dumb-as-Dirt, Stupid Phone

Pamela Haag | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Smart Technology, Speeding Cameras, Frankenstein, 2001, Smarts, American Idiot, Smartphones, Smart Phones, Technology, Culture News

My cell phone is an idiot. It's a straight-up, dingbat dumb-ass. It can't do anything, except make phone calls, and has no competency to tell me where...

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Teachers Remember Dealing With 9/11 Unfolding In Their Classrooms

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: September 11, 9/11 Classroom, 9/11 Education, Students 9/11, 2001, Sept. 11, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11 Emotions, Teachers as Parents, Decade After 9/11 - Coping, September 11 Anniversary, Terrorist Attacks, Education News

WASHINGTON -- Middle school teacher Yvonne Mason thought she was prepared for anything in her classroom. Then the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 20...

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Turning To Shakespeare On September 11th

Terence Clarke | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: September 11, Manhattan, Statue of Shakespeare, 2001, 9/11, Theater, Decade After 9/11 - Lives Affected, Shakespeare, September 11 Anniversary, Redroom, New York City, New York News

The smoke still rose, still boiling, the dead still lying in their thousands. There is not an actor in the world that could effectively play a part in such a scene.

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After Bin Laden's Death, Wall Street Breathes Tentative Sigh Of Relief

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Pledge of Allegiance, Gas Prices, Terrorist Attack, Jack Welch, Sept. 11, 2001, Bin Laden Death, Warren Buffett, Federal Reserve, Food Prices, Ground Zero, Osama Bin Laden, Video, Business News

NEW YORK -- On September 11, 2001, the financial services industry suffered heavy fatalities when New York's World Trade Center was destroyed by two h...

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A Decade of Arnold Roth

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Deal, World Trade Center, Wall Street, 2011, 2001, Sept. 11, Teitelman, Business News

In late 2001 we decided we needed a year-end issue.

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Rich Would Still Get Tax Cuts Even If Bush Tax Cuts Expire

THE NEW YORK TIMES | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Tax Code, Trickle Down Economics, White House, Wealthy, Irs, 2001, Economy, Middle Class, Joint Committee on Taxation, Bush Tax Cuts, Obama, Rich, Tax Brackets, Politics News

Taxpayers with income of more than $1 million for 2011 would still receive on average a tax cut of about $6,300 compared with what they would have pai...

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Our Digital Future Didn't Begin with iPhone or iPad: Steve Jobs Started It a Decade Ago, With This

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Magic, Iphone, Ipod, Apple, Steve Jobs, 2001, Computers, Future, Ipad, Technology News

iPod wasn't the first portable MP3 player. But the others were bulky, slow, and ugly. What Jobs was offering was tantamount to magic.

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10 Best Books That Are Years (PHOTOS, POLL)

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1984, American Revolution, 1492, Best Books, Space Odyssey, 1776, Slidepoll, Bill Reynolds, Bob Dylan, Mayan, 2012, Bestsellers, 2010, 2001, Orwell, 10 Best Years, Shakespeare, Pinchbeck, Mccullough, Books News

Instead of focusing on books that were published this year, how about focusing on years that have been published as books?

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Senate Report: Bin Laden Was 'Within Our Grasp' In 2001

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan War, Bush, Rumsfeld, US Military, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Pakistan, 9/11, Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Afghan War, John Kerry, Military, George W. Bush, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld, Tora Bora, World News

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made th...

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2000-2009: America's Lost Decade

Bob Burnett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2004 Election, 2000 Election, 2006 Election, Conservatives, 2001, George W. Bush, 2007, 2002, Democrats, 2008 Election, 2009, Republicans, 2003, Politics News

When historians update the history of the United States and ponder when we lost our way and punted the mantle of global supremacy to China, they'll conclude this past decade was the turning point.

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Glenn Beck's Crazy 9/12 Tea Party Had Nothing to do With 9/11

Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics News, Tea Party, 9/12, 912 Project, 2001, 9/11 Anniversary, September 11, 9/11, Fox News, 9-12-Project, Glenn Beck, 9/12 Tea Party March, 9/12 March on Washington, Glenn Beck 9-12, Glenn Beck 9/12, Teabaggers, Media News

Beck wants this country to return to the values it held on 9/12/2001. As someone who was in New York on 9/11 (and 9/12) I remember those values being terror and a profound grief.

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