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The Eternally Amusing Muse: Women Who Inspire Me

Napoleon Perdis | Posted February 9, 2010 |

Read More: Beauty, Catherine Deneuve, Cher, Kate Moss, Makeup, Muses, Napoleon Perdis, Napoleon Perdis Cosmetics, Sophia Loren

To create his first fragrance for Balenciaga this spring, designer Nicolas Ghesquière looked for cues not within the fashion house's rich history of perfumes but to his longtime muse, singer and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg. Ghesquière described her as "one of the most inspiring girls in the world," and sought somehow...

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Target Toyota: Why The Recall Backlash Is Overblown

James Meigs | Posted February 9, 2010 | Business

Read More: Congress, Toyota, Toyota Prius, Toyota Recall

To judge by press accounts and statements from government officials, those innocuous looking Toyota sedans and SUVs in millions of American driveways are somehow kin to the homicidal '58 Plymouth Fury in the Stephen King novel "Christine"--haunted by technological poltergeists and prone to fits of mechanical mayhem. In the...

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Toyota Six Feet Under

Warren Holstein | Posted February 9, 2010 | Comedy

Read More: Advertising, Akio Toyoda, Auto Industry, Automakers, Buick, Business, Six Feet Under, Toyota, Toyota Brake Recall, Toyota Prius, Toyota Recall, Toyota Recall 2010, TV Advertising

It's ridiculous! First the accelerator sticks and now the brakes don't work. Enough with the hollow apologies and hokey whoopsie-doo-baby-made-a boom-boom commercials, alright? We expect more. We didn't collectively kill our auto industry for shoddy workmanship and unreliability. If we wanted that...

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The Freedom of Speech Versus the Tyranny of Greed

Elizabeth Westling | Posted February 9, 2010 | Politics

Read More: Citizens United, Citizens United Lawsuit, Citizens United v. FEC, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Supreme Court

Cicero wrote in his Dialogue, De Oratore that "speech matters in those forms of government where consensus is achieved by reasoned persuasion rather than by autocratic decree, and where political decisions are submitted to the crucible of argument and counter‐argument in the public forum."

As Robert Pogue Harrison put it...

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Commercially Clobbered

Jamie Reidy | Posted February 9, 2010 | Living

Read More: Denny's, Shape Ups, Skechers

During Sunday's Super Bowl, my friends roundly ridiculed me on two separate occasions - both times in response to my response to commercials.

The first wave of derision crashed down upon me during the Skecher's Shape Ups ad, which touted their new exercise sneaker. "I just...

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Focus on the Family's Super Bowl Ad Violence

Charles Warner | Posted February 9, 2010 | Media

Read More: Cbs, Focus On The Family, Google, Super Bowl

The Focus on the Family's Super Bowl commercial featuring Tim Tebow tackling his mother is typical of the anti-abortion movement's twisted thinking: Using violence to support their position against using violence to kill nascent life.

It's the same type of twisted thinking that causes right-to-life fanatics to murder doctors...

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Three Years on: FEEDing Globally... and Locally

Ellen Gustafson | Posted February 9, 2010 | Impact

Three years ago, I was working as a U.S. Spokesperson for the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) and met Lauren Bush, a Princeton student, who designed a bag that would feed kids around the world in school. In February 2007, Lauren and I co-founded FEED Projects,...

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The Tea Party Movement Is a National Embarrassment

Stuart Whatley | Posted February 9, 2010 | Books

Last summer, when mass protests broke out in Iran following what was seen as a rigged election, Americans cried out in support of the uprising through all possible channels. Some commentators here went so far as to claim credit for the "revolution," as if it never could have happened without...

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Love, Work, and Money: An Instant Classic from Josh Charles

2morrowknight | Posted February 9, 2010 | Entertainment

Read More: Album Release, Album Review, Alicia Keyes, Blues, City Winery, Classic, Entertainment News, Josh Charles, Love Work & Money, Music, New Orleans, Pop, Rhythm-And-Blues, Stevie Wonder

Remember where you were when you heard Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life, or Alicia Keys' Songs in A Minor? Like these two albums, you will remember the moment you heard Love, Work and Money, the stunning debut album from visionary musician Josh Charles. It is, quite simply,...

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Should Senators Vote to Filibuster?

Andrew Tucker Avorn | Posted February 9, 2010 | Politics

Read More: Cloture Vote, Senate Filibuster, Vote To Filibuster

Legislation in the Senate is filibustered by default every day. A simple change in debate rules could preserve the Senate's deliberative tradition, but more accurately reflect the true purpose and political reality of the filibuster. 41 Senators should vote to extend debate, instead of 60 voting to close it.

Right...

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The President's Health Care Reform Symposium

Kim Davis | Posted February 9, 2010 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Health Care Reform, Hillarycare, President Obama

Elections are about making promises and making friends; governing is about making choices and making enemies. If President Obama wants health care reform then, both for political and policy reasons, he needs to start making some real enemies on his left because the strategy of conditioning passage on an all-liberal-with-a-few-moderates...

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Small Business Lending: Big Banks vs. Small Banks

Stacy Mitchell | Posted February 9, 2010 | Business

Read More: Big Bank, Business News, Community Banks, Huffington Move Your Money, JP Morgan, JP Morgan Chase, Move Your Money, Move Your Money Campaign, Moving To Community Banks, Small Banks

The New Rules Project, in partnership with HuffPost's Move Your Money campaign, is using its Community Banking Initiative to get out the word that banking locally can put the power back in the hands of individuals and communities, rather than Wall Street's CEOs.

Just before Thanksgiving...

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Iran's Defiant Dare = Crunch Time for Obama

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted February 9, 2010 | World

Read More: Ahmadinejad, Centcom, China, Hezbollah, Iaea, Iran, Israel, Kevin Chilton, Middle East, Nuclear Bomb, Obama, Persian Gulf, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Secretary Clinton, Secretary Gates, Syria, Tehran, Uae, UN Security Council

President Obama made clear at his impromptu press conference today that his engagement policy with Iran has proven to be diplomatically useful, but nevertheless a barren enterprise given Iran's defiant determination to accelerate its uranium enrichment program.

Against the backdrop of Iran's impending celebration of the anniversary of the Islamic...

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HBO and its Logo Rule TV, and Space

James Sims | Posted February 9, 2010 | Entertainment

Read More: Abc, Cbs, Hbo, Marketing, Nbc, Television, TV Networks

In an age when television programming is scattered across what often seems like thousands of channels, the idea of one channel ruling them all is a joke. There was a time when the three networks, NBC, ABC and CBS commanded the airwaves, but those days are tucked away in the...

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Saint Sara at the Bully Pulpit -- Never Underestimate a Beauty Queen

Leslie Griffith | Posted February 9, 2010 | Politics

Read More: Her Sainthood, Politics And Beauty Queen Ambition, Religion, Sara Palin, Wedge Issue

Reporters used to laugh when beauty contestants began saying they wanted to someday be television "anchorwomen." They did not say "reporters." They wanted the lights! They wanted the camera! They wanted the action and attention that comes with "anchoring."

No one is laughing now, except for those former beauty queens...

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For Valentine's Day: 3 Myths About Love

Susan Piver | Posted February 9, 2010 | Living

Read More: Books, Conventional Wisdom, Heartbreak, Love, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Susan Piver, The Wisdom Of a Broken Heart, Valentine's Day

At this writing, the dreaded Valentine's Day is five days away. Five days left for lovers to plan the perfect romantic celebration. Five days left for the brokenhearted to steel themselves against the sight of happy couples as far as the eye can see, strolling hand in hand, dreaming of...

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Shopping at the Vintage Fashion Expo: Tips for Vintage Fashionistas

Mary Kincaid | Posted February 9, 2010 | Style

Read More: Fashion, Shopping, Style, Vintage, Vintage Clothing, Vintage Shopping

I had a wonderful time in Santa Monica at the Vintage Fashion Expo this weekend. I flew solo on Saturday but I had the pleasure of Sandra Mendoza-Daly's company on Sunday. And as I meandered the aisles of this vintage wonderland, I was...

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My Tea-Stained Weekend: An Evangelical Conservative Turned Progressive Goes to the Tea Party Convention

Melinda Warner | Posted February 9, 2010 | Politics

Read More: Tax Day Tea Parties, Tax Day Tea Party, Tea Baggers, Tea Parties, Tea Party, Tea Party Movement, Tea Party Protests

The Tea Party movement, with its loud crowds and explicit signage, has been an intriguing force for months. Their rallies, protests, and town hall appearances have created a storm seldom seen in American history.

Those outside the movement have had a difficult time understanding the motivation behind the passion. The...

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Digital Comics and the iPad Opportunity (video)

Daisy Whitney | Posted February 9, 2010 | Media

Read More: Comic Book, Ipad, Starz, Trendrr

The comic business is estimated to be a $1 billion business annually, but it's one of the few media forms that hasn't yet fully transitioned to the digital world. That may change with the coming influx of Apple iPads and sexy new eReaders.

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Are you Kindle Resistant? For the Love of Books... and Bookstores

Arielle Ford | Posted February 9, 2010 | Books

Read More: Books, Bookstores, Digital Readers, Kindle, Libraries, Love

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library". -- Jorge Luis Borges

We are tactile creatures. We run our hands over furniture before we buy it. We feel the fabric of clothing before we ever consider trying it on. For many of us the same is...

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