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...Harvey Milk, the San Francisco gay activist who was murdered 30 years ago tomorrow, has a New York City public school, a Georgia rock band and, as of this week, a Bay Area civil-service building named for him. The first openly homosexual city supervisor in the U.S., he organized gays into a potent political force. Then there are the movies. Bryan Singer, director of X-Men and Superman Returns, is completing a Milk documentary, The Mayor of Castro Street. Today we get Milk, a hurtling, minutely researched, close-to-irresistible biopic starring Academy Award winner Sean Penn, whose performance...
...this strategy, start with the fact that Obama's likely national-security picks don't actually disagree very much with the foreign policy he laid out during the campaign. Jones is on record calling the Iraq war a "debacle" and urging that the detention center at Guantánamo Bay be closed "tomorrow." Gates has also reportedly pushed for closing Gitmo and for faster withdrawals from Iraq. He has called a military strike against Iran a "strategic calamity," urged diplomacy with Tehran's mullahs and denounced the "creeping militarization" of U.S. foreign policy. (You don't hear that from a Defense...
...seat aboard a 28-passenger luxury coach, with free Wi-Fi and a steward who offers blankets and pillows. One-way fares for the four-hour ride between the Hilton New York (1335 Avenue of the Americas; 212-586-7000) and the Hilton Boston Back Bay (40 Dalton Street; 617-236-1100) are usually $89, but they're on sale for $49 through Jan. 31, 2009, with a 14-day advance purchase. Book tickets online or call 888-546-5469 weekdays from...
Another roommate, Mike E. Driscoll ’98, described Silverman as a calm person with a head for numbers. He said that because of those qualities, he was not entirely surprised when Silverman took the job in Tampa Bay...
...expect next year to be worse. Goldman Sachs predicts GDP will grow only 2.2% in 2009. In the meantime, Hong Kong's glum populous can at least take comfort in the efforts of one of the city's more esoteric groups. In mid-November, several members collected in Causeway Bay, a popular shopping and restaurant district, to offer people "free" hugs. More such sessions are planned in coming weeks. "Particularly in the [current] financial situation, people need more care and attention," says Ricky Chow, a Hug Society organizer. Unfortunately, as Hong Kong's economy worsens, they may need much more...