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Practically everyone (87%) over 50 who goes online uses e-mail, according to a survey by AXA Group, a financial-services firm. What's even newer is how many in this group (81%) have discovered the magic of Google and other search sites. "They are finding information that helps them identify and participate in interest groups," says Ken Gelman, director of marketing research at AXA. "They use the Net to help them focus...
...been a magnificent season for gaffes. Consider just the past couple of weeks, Barbara Boxer ostensibly dissed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for not having an " immediate family." A hapless Pentagon official named Charles Stimson called on American corporations to fire any law firm that represented terror suspects. An actor on Grey's Anatomy used the word "faggot" at the Golden Globe awards in the course of denying that he had used this word about another member of the cast last October. French president Jacques Chirac said that it wouldn't be so bad if Iran got a nuclear bomb...
...military resources, to say nothing of the mental energies of the President's lieutenants in Washington. Although Defense Secretary Robert Gates has hinted that the increase in troop strength in Iraq may last only until the summer, the Administration rejects the idea of setting any firm limits on the U.S. commitment there. Says Rice: "This is going to happen over a period of time ... It's not as if there's a cutoff point, because that's not how it's going to unfold." And it's hard to imagine a significant decrease in U.S. troop presence in Iraq before...
...sparked a property boom in Bansko, where investors are scooping up cheap vacation homes. Meanwhile, low-cost labor, economic incentives and proximity to the rest of Europe are luring record levels of foreign investment from companies like French car-parts manufacturer Montupet, Chinese TV maker SVA and U.S. energy firm AES--even though Bulgaria still has a ways to go in cleaning up corruption...
After finishing the clerkships and spending two years at a top Washington law firm, Kagan joined the faculty at the University of Chicago, where she stayed full-time for four years before taking a job in the Clinton administration. It was there—while serving as the deputy director of the White House’s Domestic Policy Council—that she first came into contact with Lawrence H. Summers when the two worked on tobacco legislation...