Ronald Lauder

Portrait of Wally and Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story: Two Faces of Ronald Lauder

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Ronald Lauder, Lea Bondi, Follow Me, Willi Korte, Egon Schiele, Jane Kallir, David D?Arcy, Portrait of Wally, Robert Morgenthau, Jonathan Gruber, Ari Daniel Pinchot, Yoni Netanyahu, Ruth Rozanek, Andrew Shea, Culture News

"Who owns art?" you might say is the center of the debate concerning art stolen from Jews. But as my mother, an Auschwitz survivor used to say, there is a right and a wrong.

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Giving Thanks for a Meritocracy Instead of Aristocracy

Maxim Thorne | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Ronald Lauder, Maxim Thorne, Elizabeth Warren, Philanthropy and Tax Avoidance, Bill Gates Philanthropy, Philanthropy, Occupy Wall Street, Richard Parsons, Warren Buffett Taxes, Ows, Julian Bond, Tax Avoidance, Bono Philanthropy, Supersized Philanthropy, Neue Galerie, Maxim's Principle, Bono, Impact News

Although I appreciate all the good philanthropy does, I wish to alter the way supersized philanthropy operates in America as part of my commitment to keep America true to our founding freedoms.

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Incumbent Protection Plan

Henry J. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Lauder, New York Civic, Term Limits, Eric Ulrich, Charter Revision Commission, Public Referendum, New York News

There is no valid reason to exempt incumbents from the two-term limit. Indeed, they are the principal individuals the referendum was intended to affect in the first place.

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Term Limits Deferred

Henry J. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Lauder, Matthew Goldstein, Eric Ulrich, Term Limits, Mayor Bloomberg, Betsy Mccaughey, Randy Mastro, Public Referendum, Seymour Lachman, Henry Stern, Anthony Perez Cassino, Charter Revision Commission, Michael Meyers, New York News

An effort to restore the two-term limit for elected city officials this year has been launched with a news conference on the steps of City Hall.

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Tuesday's Two-Sided Ballot

Henry J. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Lauder, Una Clarke, Charter Review Commission, Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Long, Jose Rivera, Michael Bloomberg, Lorna Goodman, Martin Malave Dilan, Joel Rivera, Term Limits, Alfonse D'Amato, Wendell Foster, Peter Vallone, New York News

If Question 1 is approved by the voters, efforts are likely to be made by good government forces to advance the effective date of the two-term limit to 2013.

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Eleven Years A-Waiting

Henry J. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Lauder, Matthew Goldstein, New York City Council, Michael Bloomberg, Charter Revision Commission, New York News

The right to decide the issue of term limits was snatched from the public by the 2008 self-perpetuating dance of the incumbents.

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MidEast Peace: Pessimism from the Right and the Left

Eileen Read | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Lauder, Stephen Walt, Bret Stephens, Jewish Voice for Peace, ForeignPolicy.Com, Wall Street Journal, Jewish, Palestinians, Middle East Peace, Daniel Pipes, J Street, Muslim, Arab, American Israel Political Action Committee, American Jewish Committee, Middle East, Tikun Olam, Jew, John Mearsheimer, Middle East Peace Process, Israel, Aipac, Aaron David Miller, New Republic, Foreign Policy, Israeli, Martin Peretz, World News

Why is it that merely talking about talking about peace brings instant backlash? Four of the most controversial writers on the Middle East - pessimist...

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Voices from Jerusalem: Open Letter to Ronald Lauder

Ir Amim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Netanyahu, Ronald Lauder, Obama, American Mideast Policy, Israeli-American Relations, World News

What Israel has done to achieve rapprochement with the Palestinians has been a sham: a cosmetic mask to hide the desire to have it all. And nobody knows cosmetics better than you, Mr. Lauder.

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Artlog's Top Art & Culture Picks

Artlog | Posted 05.25.2011

For those of you who have yet to show off your legs this summer, perhaps you can learn a lesson or two from Albrecht Dürer's idea of beauty.

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Miep Gies and Saintliness

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Lauder, Pius XII, Miep Gies, Archbishop Jules Saliege, Sainthood, Holocaust, Anne Frank, Pope Benedict XVI, World News

The question Roman Catholics should be asking themselves this week is why there hasn't been more talk about someday making Miep Gies --who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis -- a saint.

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