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...observance and Jewish identity. Now that JFS has been granted an appeal, it's up to Britain's newly formed Supreme Court to tackle the issue. "We are pleased with the House of Lords' decision to grant JFS leave to appeal and we will be seeking permission to intervene," Simon Hochhauser, president of the United Synagogue, said in a statement. "The responsibility for educating our children is one of Judaism's most fundamental principles." (Read "Introducing America's First Black, Female Rabbi...
...have done either bank's prospects any harm. While Barclays and HSBC have both benefited from taxpayer loans or guarantees - part of a $2 trillion package of state and central-bank aid doled out to Britain's lenders - both "have worked hard on their balance sheets," says Simon Maughan, a banking analyst at MF Global brokerage in London. Having tapped Middle East investors last year in an effort to bolster its capital base, Barclays agreed in June to sell the investment unit BGI to U.S. fund manager BlackRock for $13 billion. HSBC, for its part, pulled in close...
...burgeoning blog community, dubbed the Fatosphere, where bloggers rail against antiobesity messages in the media. Although a second group, the International Size Acceptance Association, started in 1997, NAAFA has emerged as the foremost defender in the press of overweight Americans, throwing its weight around on issues ranging from Simon Cowell's fat jokes on American Idol to airlines' making obese passengers pay for a second seat. (Read "Brazilian Obesity: The Big Girl from Ipanema...
...oratorical gifts of Obama (unlike the President, he shuns teleprompters) and the eagerness to engage that carried Bill Clinton to the top. Unlike Clinton, Booker sometimes needs to read crowds a bit better. At a community event, he dropped a reference to the television show Frasier while playing Simon Says with a few dozen African-American kids and their parents. (Frazier was the last name of one of the participants.) The kids were mystified...
...enjoy In the Loop you needn't know which character is supposed to be what government bigwig; just relax and savor the insults. Every person, monument and company gets a derisive nickname. CNN is "the Cartoon News Network." Toby, Simon's curly-haired, cherub-faced aide, is variously addressed as "Fetus Boy," "Love Actually" and "Ron Weasley." (The last is an apt epithet; as the plot will show, Toby is more than a little weasely.) Chad, a tall, thin lad on the American team, is "Young Lankenstein" and "the boy from The Shining." James Gandolfini plays a dovish U.S. General...