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What better role model could you ask for than this? And how do you put a price on the opportunity to spend nearly three hours in his company? Well, two days after our meal, the auction closed on eBay for next year's lunch with Buffett. The winner, a Chinese money manager named Zhao Danyang, bid $2.1 million. So, that proves it: our $650,100 lunch was a total bargain...
...also warned that the decision would lead to a massive social upheaval. And just like we found in Massachusetts after the gay marriage ruling, that hasn't happened at all. These laws haven't changed the way anybody else lives their life." He adds, "I didn't spend a lot of time listening to what Justice Scalia was saying. And I wasn't really focused on what the implications of the case would in the future. Just knowing what we had accomplished at the moment [the striking down of the sodomy laws] was tremendous...
Meanwhile, the world melts - scientists recently warned there was a chance that the North Pole could be briefly ice-free this summer, an astonishing possibility. The longer you spend reporting on climate change, the less likely it seems that our political systems are capable of crafting a commensurate response. Maybe we lack the ability to plan so far in ahead. In the U.S., the talk today is of gas prices, not global warming, and the first serious attempt at a federal carbon cap recently went fell in an embarrassing defeat in the Senate. Present fears overwhelm us, something Blair should...
...climate challenge, and he has the right ideas. "If you've got children, you want them to grow up in a world that doesn't have catastrophic climate change," he said. But after a few more months of hitting his head against the climate wall, he might want to spend his retirement years working on something a bit easier. Like Mideast peace...
...NAFTA, along with news that two Muslim women in headscarves were moved out of camera range at a rally, left the Democrat with one of the most off-message weeks of his campaign. By rejecting public funds, Obama is expected to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and spend more on his presidential campaign than any candidate has before. He's already airing television ads in red states like Alaska and is considering pricey spots during the Olympics. Money isn't everything in politics, but this is one of Obama's biggest advantages...