Astoria Characters: The Veteran Bookseller
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.
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.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology
Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.
AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
TOKYO — A speech and a Nobel prize have raised hopes in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hirosh...
Robert Koehler | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
The argument: In a world held hostage by nuclear weapons, there are smaller aggregate numbers of war dead; therefore, God bless nukes. Or maybe not.
Gary Hart | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
More can be done in linking national research laboratories, networking financial regulatory regimes, linking universities, networking environmental protection efforts, and the list goes on.
John Lundberg | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
I've been trying to track down English translations of poems by Herta Muller, the newest Nobel Laureate in Literature, but they are awfully hard to come by (if they even exist).
AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
WARSAW, Poland — To try to reach young people around the world, the memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a page on Facebook, the social net...
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy
In a plot line inspired by Robert Frost's poem "Road Not Taken," fictional character Archie Andrews has already proposed to Veronica and will propose to Betty next month. I wonder what it would be like if other comics were inspired by poems...
Paul A. London | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
Many Republicans know this "deficits will kill us" stuff is bull. The country can afford to spend money to put Americans back to work, just as surely as it could afford to spend money to fight World War II.
Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
This has been a very rough year for Iceland, and it's not likely to get better anytime soon. The public's anger continues to grow, and it would not be surprising if this winter sees a repeat of last winter's uprising.
Johann Hari | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
William Shawcross has won the favor of his fellow monarchists by taking the Queen Mother's curdled life and presenting it as the best of British.
AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
MADRID — A Spanish judge on Thursday indicted three alleged ex-Nazi death camp guards who all lived for many years in the United States, chargin...
Jessica Rovello | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment
Whether you love or hate his ideas, it's hard to deny that Brown has a gift for pulling you in and getting you excited about the possibility that there are truths being kept from us.
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Medvedev claimed Stalin saved Europe from Hitler. But the facts tell us a different story. Stalin was an even worse mass murderer than Hitler by a factor of three or four.
Gershon Hepner | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Of all days this one was the worst, '39, September 1st, when hell began to hit the fan, resuscitating ancient hate to undermine the status quo like ancient walls of Jericho.
Robert Scheer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
What if eight years ago the World Trade Center had been leveled by a small nuclear bomb that took out most of lower Manhattan as well? How many millio...
Reuters | Caroline Copley | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
BERLIN (Reuters) �" The German parliament passed a law Tuesday clearing the names of those branded traitors by the Nazis in World War Two -- ending ...
Tamara Conniff | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
It's a satisfying exchange when you give a skill in return for a skill. And, I'm saving money -- it's my personal 401K.
Bryan Farrell | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment
There is a surprising truth about WWII: nonviolence, of the kind Gandhi practiced, was used successfully against the Nazis.
Aaron Keyak | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
You might think that Buchanan would have stopped using this sort of unrepentant rhetoric as his career moved from a Republican firebrand to a to cable news commentator -- but you'd be wrong.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
When the leaders of the G-20 nations arrive in Pittsburgh, I want them to know I am fomenting revolution -- Industrial revolution. Specifically, a 21st-century burgeoning of green manufacturing in the United States.
Ellen Kanner | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
"The harvest is past, the summer is over, and yet we are not saved." Jeremiah 8:20. Don't let this be you. While seasonal despair can take hold a...
Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment
Tarantino knows how to build up the suspense and how to let it go.
Robert Gellately | Posted 09.24.2009 | Home
On August 23, 1939 Stalin's agreement with Nazi Germany gave Hitler the green light. That signal was important at the time and seventy years later there is no reason for Russians to deny it.
José Ramos-Horta | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
The new officer corps emerging in Burma should know that they have a historic opportunity to save their country and restore Burma's place in the world.
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York