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Astoria Characters: The Veteran Bookseller

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

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Nancy Ruhling

There's no bookstore in the Ditmars section of Astoria. We don't need one. Harry puts the words out on the street -- his bookstand has been in the same spot for nearly a quarter century.

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U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers

Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York

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Jim Luce

Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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Madeleine M. Kunin

I re-acquainted myself with Eleanor Roosevelt last weekend when I received the Eleanor Roosevelt medal for public service at Val-Kill, her Hyde Park retreat.

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Nobel Prize Snubs: Which Great People Never Won?

Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Nobel, Slidepoll, Cesar Chavez, Mahatma Gandhi, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Ronald Reagan, Nobel Prize, Eleanor Roosevelt, World News

The announcement that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize has inspired a new wave of history-seekers to look into the prize. Who's won and who h...

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"Anything Goes" Capitalism Destroys Companies and Workers' Lives

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Simmons Mattress, Private Equity Firm, Private Equity, Scott A. Schoen, Eleanor Roosevelt, Usw, United Steelworkers, Anything Goes, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Standard & Poor’s, Fdr, Cole Porter, Max Gordon, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Simmons, Noble Rogers, New York Times, 1929 Crash, Stock Market, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Rober Hellyer, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Anything Goes capitalism workers' lives, but it sure does work for the private equity firms. They made around $750 million in profits from the now-indebted and bankrupt Simmons.

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An Audio Book Review: Forget Butch and Sundance, Etta's the Real Star Here

Tom Alderman | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Kid Curry, The Sundance Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Trotsky, Etta Place, The Wild Bunch, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, Gerald Koplan, Annie Oakley, The Hole in the Wall Gang, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Dos Passos, Blackstone Audio, Butch Cassidy, Kirsten Potter, E.L. Doctorow, The Pinkerton Detective Agency, The Harvey Girls, Katherine Ross, Ann Hathaway, The Black Hand, A Novel, Robert Redford, Etta, Media News
Tom Alderman

In this imaginative and fictional biography, Etta Place can shoot a gun as well as Annie Oakley, ride a horse like Buffalo Bill and rob banks with the skill of an experienced outlaw.

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First Lady Summer Style: A Slideshow Retrospective

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 08.04.2009 | Style

Read More: Pat Nixon Summer, Pat Nixon Style, Bess Truman, Rosalynn Carter, Laura Bush Style, First Lady Style, Michelle Obama Style, Nancy Reagan Style, Eleanor Roosevelt Style, Nancy Reagan Summer, Barbara Bush Style, Laura Bush, Jacqueline Kennedy Style, Hillary Clinton Summer, Claudia Johnson Summer, Barbara Bush, Eleanor Roosevelt Summer, Pat Nixon, Nancy Reagan, Hillary Clinton Style, Slideshow, Michelle Obama, Jacqueline Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Obama Summer, Betty Ford, Claudia Johnson, Bess Truman Style, Mamie Eisenhower Style, Betty Ford Style, Rosalynn Carter Style, Laura Bush Summer, Style, Mamie Eisenhower Summer, Betty Ford Summer, Barbara Bush Summer, First Lady Summer Style, Hillary Clinton, Mamie Eisenhower, Claudia Johnson Style, Jacqueline Kennedy Summer, Bess Truman Summer, Rosalynn Carter Summer, Slidepoll, Style News

The first lady's garb is a great way to gauge what's hot for summer style. Michelle Obama often makes news with her warm-weather wear comprised of cap...

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Health Care: France & the U.S., Social Security and the Single-Payer Model

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Securite Sociale, Sarkozy, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Social Security, Brigitte Marti, Obama, Health Care, Veterans, Barack Obama Mother, Normandy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fdr, French President Sarkozy, Barack Obama Normandy, Politics News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

France enjoys the benefit of a National Health Program or 'assurance maladie.' Typically, social protection and health care work in combination and that is a concept widely accepted in Europe.

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The Hippocratic Oath And Health Care Reform

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Health Insurance, Lakeville Journal, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Business, Hippocratic Oath, Politics News
Raymond J. Learsy

This letter speaks eloquently to an issue critical to the administration and the conduct of our society.

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The White House's Greatest Hostesses

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 06.29.2009 | Style

Read More: First Ladies, Style News, White House, Michelle Obama, James Galanos, Jacqueline Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, White-House-Weddings, Hostess, Frances Cleveland, Lucy Hayes, Laura Bush, Style, Lesley M. M. Blume, Jackie Kennedy, Fashion, Entertaining, Michelle Obama Style, Nancy Reagan, Oscar De La Renta, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

When the Obamas ascended to the White House earlier this year, many Washingtonians breathed a sigh of relief: after serving a grim eight-year sentence...

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Michelle Obama Displays Rare Candor For A First Lady

nytimes.com | RACHEL L. SWARNS | Posted 06.28.2009 | Style

Read More: Grace Coolidge, Michelle Obama, Lou Henry Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Style News

First ladies have long wrestled with what to say and how to say it. Grace Coolidge, the first to address the public by radio, kept her remarks brief b...

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Michelle Obama's High Style for Hard Times

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.10.2009 | Style

Read More: History, Tracy Reese, Style, Eleanor Roosevelt, Donna Karan, Buckingham Palace, Thomas Jefferson, Vera Wang, Michele Obama Black Designers, Extravagance, Michelle Obama Style, Queen Elizabeth II, Benjamin Franklin, High Fashion, Oscar De La Renta, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Michelle Obama is apparently an excellent history student. Certainly she's learned from the example of other great figures from years past how to look wonderful without undue extravagance.

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The Obamas Get Their Hands Dirty

Dr. Brent Ridge | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living

Read More: White House, Kitchen Gardeners International, Landreth Seed Company, Heirloom Vegetables, Eleanor Roosevelt, Obama, Sharon Springs, Gardening, Dr. Brent, Beekman 1802, Victory Garden, Living News
Dr. Brent Ridge

The Obamas' garden is victoriously symbolic; gardening is about more than better health, safer foods, and environmental stewardship.

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Michelle Obama, First Ladies and African-American History

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 03.28.2009 | Style

Read More: White House, Michelle Obama, African-Americans, Lou Hoover, Jacqueline Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Obama Administration, Frances Cleveland, Barack Obama, Mary Lincoln, First Ladies, Nellie Taft, Louisa Adams, Black History Month, Jane Pierce, Abraham Lincoln, Lady Bird Johnson, John Quincy Adams, Mamie Eisenhower, Abigail Fillmore, Florence Harding, Women's History Month, Style News
Carl Sferrazza Anthony

There were few powerful women in mid-19th century America who more vigorously pressed the case first for abolition and then for the education, housing, and welfare of freed African-American slaves than did Mrs. Lincoln.

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Martha Washington Redux: America's First MILF

Warren Holstein | Posted 03.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: New Orleans, George Bush, Jimmy Choos, Gulf War, Janet Reno, Eleanor Roosevelt, George W. Bush, Historical Revision, Sex and the City, Ugly Betty, Madeline Albright, History, Betty Friedan, Margaret Thatcher, George Washington, George H.W. Bush, Manolo Blahnik, Revisionist History, Martha Washington, Gertrude Stein, Milf, Barbara Bush, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

Hold on to your hats folks or at least your iPod earbuds, Martha Washington was actually a babe! Also, she avidly consumed Gothic romance novels. Me-ow!

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Tip #6 for Our 44th President: Listen to Your Mother-In-Law

Emily Main | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Saving, Barack Obama, Organic Gardens, First Ladies, Energy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Abigail Adams, Green Living, Laura Bush, 60 Minutes, Vegetables, Lou Hoover, Food, Lady Bird Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Gardening, Parents, Green News
Emily Main

In honor of these wise women, we've compiled a list of some of the nation's former First Ladies (and grandmothers and mothers-in-law) and their contributions to a better planet.

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Michelle Obama and the Covert Influence of First Ladies

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, First Ladies, Congress, Michelle Obama First Lady, Philippines, Spanish-American War, Mary Lincoln, East Wing, Kennedys, Curtis LeMay, Obama Advisers, New York State Governor, First Lady, Former Presidents, Chicago, Abraham Lincoln, Rosalynn Carter Inauguration, Fdr, Financial Planning, Florence Harding, Benjamin Montgomery, Great Depression, Michelle Obama South Side, Michelle Obama, Calvin Coolidge, University of Chicago, Rosalyn Carter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ida Mckinley, U.S. Presidents, Barack Obama, Presidents, Barack Obama and David Axelrod, The West Wing, Clinton First Lady, David Axelrod, South Side of Chicago, Robert Lansing, Jimmy Carter, Edith Wilson, Jackie Kennedy, Roosevelt, Jfk, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Tough Decisions, Politics News
Carl Sferrazza Anthony

As memories of Inauguration Day 2009 begin to fade in and the new administration ensues, speculation will only increase about how politically influential Michelle Obama will be as First Lady.

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Whoops! Michelle Will Never Shop There Again

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Michelle Obama, Nancy Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Obama Jewelry, Michelle Obama Style, Michelle Obama Earrings, Michael Sneed, Chicago News
Carol Felsenthal

Now that Michelle Obama is in the White House, she has to be careful that Nancy Reagan is not the First Lady to whom she is compared.

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First Ladies: Character to Caricature, Part One

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

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Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Scanning Michelle Obama's post-election coverage makes it seem that the importance of being First Lady is about sleeveless dresses and puppy breeds. It isn't.

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What Ms. Roosevelt Might Have Said About Gay Rights

Pia Sawhney | Posted 04.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homosexuality, Politics News, Politics, California Gay Marriage, Human Rights, Gay Rights, Religion and Politics, Breaking Politics News, Human Rights Abuses, Homosexual Rights, Gay Marriage, Eleanor Roosevelt, 60th Anniversary Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations, World, Politics News
Pia Sawhney

If Ms. Roosevelt was around today... would she have used the 60th anniversary of the UDHR the way gay activists have; and would she have endorsed a national boycott in solidarity with them?

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Today Is Human Rights Day

Michael DeJong | Posted 01.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Environmental, Human Rights, Mass Consumption, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Cradle-to-Cradle, Freedom, Eleanor Roosevelt, UN General Assembly, Deregulation, Green Living, Sustainability, Living News
Michael DeJong

Living consciously and mindfully of the potential for cradle-to-cradle living and sustainability is empowering enough to make tiny but impactful different choices in our purchases.

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Past Time for Change: Securing Women's Health and Rights

Adrienne Germain | Posted 01.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Violence Against Women, Women Health Care, Convention for the Elimination of the Discrimination Against Women, Women Mortality Rate, Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Reproductive Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt, United Nations, Cedaw, Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton Women's Rights, US Ratification of CEDAW, Human Rights, CEDAW Ratification, UN Prosecution of Human Rights Offenders, Obama Foriegn Policy, Us World Image, Undhr, Living News
Adrienne Germain

Based on decades of international work, we know that there will be no global peace or security until we secure every woman's right to a just and healthy life.

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One Quarter of Americans Still Don't Believe It -- What About You?

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Hunger, United Nations General Assembly, How to Solve World Hunger, World Hunger, Eleanor Roosevelt, Food Politics, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Food, Democracy, Politics of Food, World News
Frances Moore Lappe

If citizens' having real choice is the heart of democracy -- and no human being chooses to go hungry -- we might ponder: Isn't hunger's very existence proof of a deficit of democracy?

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Speak Up for Human Rights: The Price of Silence is Much Too High

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 01.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Argentina's Dirty War, Alicia Partnoy, Emmanuel Jal, Breaking Entertainment News, War on Terror, Link TV, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Guantanamo, United Nations, Eleanor Roosevelt, UN General Assembly, International Law, Samuel Kofi Woods, Child Soldier, Barack Obama, Amnesty International, Mary Robinson, Patriot Act, Human Rights, The Price of Silence, Sudan, Music Has No Enemies, Itunes, Torture, 100 Days, Entertainment News
Marcia G. Yerman

2008-12-09-marcia_silence.jpg In an effort to rally attention to the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Amnesty International is releasing the international song and video, The Price of Silence.

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Happy Birthday, Declaration of Human Rights

Jack Healey | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Darfur, Will Ferrell, Human Rights, Moby, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt, Desmond Tutu, Congo, Torture, Video, Politics News
Jack Healey

2008-12-08-ferrell_dechuman.jpgThis is a video of artists, activists and children reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- send it to everyone you know.

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