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Former Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson, Jr. managed to maintain a sense of humor while speaking at the Institute of Politics yesterday about the recent financial crisis and his personal experience with decision making in the difficult environment...
Also impressive is Jerome Stephens Jr., who plays the young Simba. Though only a skinny boy of nine, he manages to pack a musical punch. While his lines largely read as formulaic and somewhat trite (“I just want to be brave like you, Dad,” he insists cloyingly to his father), and the development of his character is confined to the wild, wide-eye child role, he’s undeniably a vocal powerhouse packed in a pint-sized body...
...handcuffs that will remain linked to the controversial arrest of Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies, are now part of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian...
...Beltway veterans who have been among the movement's leaders for decades, have been working for months to hash out language that satisfies the party's often fractious factions. They cite the compact as a contemporary version of the Sharon Statement, a document named for William F. Buckley Jr.'s Connecticut hometown that helped shape the contours of conservatism for the past 50 years. "We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding," the authors write. "The federal government today ignores the limits of the Constitution, which is increasingly dismissed as obsolete and irrelevant." (See 10 promising GOP stars...
...left, after decades of white flight and economic stagnation, is an expanse of abandoned buildings, bulldozed lots and forgotten history. Around 3,000 people live in Cairo (pronounced Kay-ro), a third of them below the poverty line. "I describe this town in three words," says Preston Ewing Jr., Cairo's unofficial historian and former president of the local NAACP chapter: "poor, black and ugly." (See the best pictures...