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Shaquille O'Neal can do anything, as long as that thing is telling people he can do anything. On ABC's Shaq Vs., he challenges Super Bowl champ Ben Roethlisberger to a football game; baseball's home-run leader, Albert Pujols, to a batting contest; and gold medalists Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh to beach volleyball. He insists he's the greatest athlete in the world, even though the only thing he beats them at is trash-talking. O'Neal plays sports the way George W. Bush fights wars...
...store, a favorite of actors Ben Foster and Hunter Parrish, is on the border of funky Los Feliz and trendy Silver Lake, far from the chic boutiques of Hollywood. Housed in what was originally a print shop, it has a decidedly non-L.A. vibe, with salvage-yard furniture, exposed-brick walls and beamed ceilings that create a Depression-era backdrop. Featured brands include a mix of big names like Marc Jacobs and Jil Sander and new American collections from Patrik Ervell and Tim Hamilton. "Most of them are up-and-coming designers," Urbinati says, "but that...
Right Man, Right Time By one of those strange Sully Sullenberger collisions of preparation and crisis - the sort that put Depression expert Ben Bernanke in at the Fed at the moment of a flameout of 1930s magnitude - Larry Summers made his reputation as an employment theorist. Summers is the nephew of two Nobel economists and was regarded as the smartest undergrad anyone knew, but as he surveyed his research options 30 years ago, he settled on the then relatively unsexy specialty of labor. The subject tickled his sense of skepticism. "The view that was taking hold at that time...
...wavering votes in the chamber. "I don't think the audience was in the chamber. I think the audience was in the viewing public out there, to help them understand and reset the message that health-care reform benefits everybody one way or another," said moderate Nebraska Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, standing by the Capitol in front of a bus about to take him and 16 other Democrats to the White House for a chat with the President on health care. "I'm not going to commit to anything until I see everything, because there are so many moving parts...
...Boston refused to buy British tea, Americans have wielded their economic clout as a weapon against - and, sadly, sometimes for - social injustice. In the U.S., the power of the purse is the most democratic power of all. The Quaker notion of doing well by doing good - popularized by Ben Franklin, the patron saint of social entrepreneurs - predated the predatory capitalism of the Gilded Age. Its revival is due in part to an Obama effect: as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama relentlessly touted green products and industry and preached the idea that profits and principles are not mutually exclusive. His election...