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Know a good restaurant in New York City? Frank Bruni has probably dined there. For five years, the former New York Times restaurant critic ate his way through some of the best - and worst - menus the city had to offer. His meticulous, unforgiving reviews could make or break a new restaurant and the prospect of a Bruni visit regularly sent chefs into panics. But Bruni's relationship with food went beyond his day job: as he relates in his new book, Born Round, the man paid to eat had a history of eating disorders stretching all the way back...
...This past Sunday, The New York Times reported on one of the financial industry’s newest tactics—to securitize not mortgages, but bought-out life insurance policies. Wall Street firms buy policies from holders, continuing to pay monthly premiums until the original policyholder dies and the firm collects the life insurance money. The way in which these policies are bundled and sold as derivatives is suspiciously reminiscent of the way mortgage-backed securities were sold to investors. Upping the ante even more is a whole new set of ethical implications that comes with buying and selling...
...Jerry Lewis is known these days as the King of Telethons. The actor has hosted an epic television outreach for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) since 1955, when his first 16½-hour show raised more than $600,000 in a live broadcast from Carnegie Hall in New York City. That was before Lewis became the official host and was given the ratings-challenged Labor Day slot to host the show, and since then it's become an even greater test of a performer's endurance. This Labor Day holiday show, the 44th annual MDA telethon, will...
...world and momentarily overshadowed his victory. In the book, she claimed that in her sleep aliens took her soul to the planet Venus, which she described as being very green. The headlines around the world were shocked, shocked, in a predictable way, with bad puns from London to New York, and even in neighboring South Korea, China and Taiwan. (See the top 10 colorful first spouses...
Second, the article by Hatoyama that caused so much fuss - initially published in The Voice, a Tokyo monthly, and (in shorter version) on the website of The New York Times and International Herald Tribune - does not read like some little op-ed casually dashed off by a summer intern. It is a thoughtful, sophisticated, and quite radical analysis of how globalization and the financial crisis have changed the landscape in which Japan and the U.S. find themselves...