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Talese continued her verbal barrage via e-mail Sunday with Dallas Morning News book critic Michael Merschel, a panelist at the conference, who detailed the exchange on his blog and in a column Monday. Talese was unapologetic for publishing the book, Merschel said, and she described Winfrey to him as "holier-than-thou" and her talk-show audience as reminiscent of a "Roman circus." The upcoming C-SPAN BOOK-TV show is certain to stir the waters. Winfrey, so far, has declined to comment. With reporting by Laura Fitzpatrick/New York
There is more - much more - where that came from. To date, China's economic engagement with the outside world has largely come via exports (it sent $969 billion worth of goods to the rest of the world last year) and by attracting huge amounts of foreign direct investment, mostly from manufacturers taking advantage of its low labor costs. That is now changing rapidly. A month ago, Beijing's State Investment Company bought a $3 billion stake in the Blackstone Group just before the American private-equity giant went public (an investment that is so far more than $300 million underwater...
...state to shell out $7.6 million on a cloud seeding experiment is a worthwhile risk. "If it proves to do something, then it has to have some benefit," she says. "If we're seeing such weird weather - if we're going to have to pump water all over Australia via huge pipelines - wouldn't it be wiser to find another way?" she asks. "It would be worth...
According to an initial police report, two assailants outside the restaurant on JFK Street confronted the 45-year-old Bostonian in the early morning hours of July 2. One of the assailants stabbed the alleged victim in his groin with a switchblade knife before fleeing the area via the Harvard T Station...
...tell us we might run into trouble from the three carloads of policemen she had seen hanging around the apartment complex. Yuan's hosts, activist Hu Jia and his wife Zeng Jingyan (named earlier this year as one of TIME's 100 most influential people for her efforts via the Internet to secure his freedom after he was arrested last year), also warned us that some diplomats who had visited earlier were prevented from entering. We were pretty confident we would be let in, though. Under new regulations issued ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, most restrictions on reporting...