There's been a lot of talk recently about CEO compensation with adjectives like stratospheric and disproportionate getting thrown around. Lawrence E. Mitchell, writing today in Business Week, takes the long view and diagnoses a problem at the heart of the American business system: "The real culprit is the growing...
MY little Republican heart went pit-a-pat the other day when I saw the headline in the Times: MCCAIN SETS GOAL OF 45 NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS BY 2030. I'm all for nukes in any form. I've long felt that nuclear energy is the way to go, and now that I read...
After nine years on Channel 4's teen magazine show, June Sarpong is moving on - and using the power of showbiz to get to get young women interested in politics. Esther Walker hears why June Sarpong has always been a bit political. The 31-year-old might be best...
Nobody has confused me with Lance Armstrong -- or Al Gore -- but they might if I keep doing things like I did during my Tour de Funny Pants last Friday. Most of my Friday mornings begin something like this: 7 a.m.: Alarm goes...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9fbf5b/green_marketing_in) has announced the addition of the "Green Marketing in the United States 2008" report to their offering. "Green" messages have swept the marketing world over the past two years and Mintel provides the context necessary to understand the green marketplace. Interest...
What is it about former vice presidents that makes them so irresistible to opera composers? First there was Nixon in China, by the vice-presidentially-named John Adams, and now La Scala has commissioned Giorgio Battistelli to build an opera around Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Operas have certainly been based on...
WASHINGTON AFP — Third-party US presidential candidate Ralph Nader on Sunday accused Democratic contender Barack Obama of touting "corporate" interests that benefit the wealthy to the detriment of ordinary Americans. Speaking on ABC television, Nader said Obama's positions are ones "that corporate America are very congenial to." ...
Scientist James Hansen says we're toast if we don't take drastic measures against global warming ("Climatologist sounds warning," June 24). Is this the top NASA scientist who doctored temperature stats, and when asked why he had lied he said it was because we need to get people's attention? Al Gore...
I grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I have sisters, cousins, aunts and an uncle -- some are in their 90s and one turned 100 in May -- living there. I have talked to all of them, and I have seen and heard others from there interviewed on TV ("36,000...
Dear Utah Republicans, Let me guess. The red-alert air-quality days we're experiencing here in Utah are just another hoax put forth by Al Gore, right? Joseph Price South Jordan...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/20e02b/green_online_grow) has announced the addition of eMarketer's new report "Green Online: Growing Awareness" to their offering. Today's environmental concerns are more complex, far-reaching and interconnected than those of the past, and the Internet provides a powerful forum for corporations, marketers, policymakers and...
WASHINGTON -- Eight years after being nominated for vice president at an exuberant Democratic convention, Joe Lieberman describes himself as so estranged from the party over the Iraq war and national security policy that he is committed to siding with Senate Democrats only "for now" as he campaigns for Republican...
"The outcome of this election will affect the future of our planet." AL GORE, in a speech endorsing Barack Obama for president Go to cjonline.activote.com for 2008 election news. The site offers local and national information on the candidates, the issues and how the...
After months of waiting, the former vice-president Al Gore endorsed Barack Obama at a joint appearance in Detroit, lavishing praise on the Democratic nominee. While Mr Gore remains popular, his endorsement is unlikely to have much impact at this late stage...
FLINT, Mich. AP -- Al Gore announced his endorsement of Barack Obama Monday and promised to help the Democrat achieve what eluded him -- the presidency. In a letter to be e-mailed to Obama supporters, the former vice president and Nobel Prize winner wrote, "From now through...
"We won the recount, and they won the movie," says Republican lawyer Ben Ginsberg of the new HBO picture Recount. Back in 2000, Ginsberg played a major role in George W. Bush's Florida recount effort, and now HBO has given his character a big part in the movie version. Of...
CHICAGO, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Tribune Interactive President Marc Chase today named Kim Johnson as Senior Vice President of Local Sales. "The promotions department was testing a new online contest program, and somehow her entry form ended up in our human resources department," said Chase. "The...
WASHINGTON, AFP — Former US Vice President and Nobel laureate Al Gore gave Barack Obama a resounding endorsement Monday, saying that the United States "simply cannot afford to continue the policies of the last eight years for another four." "For America to lead the world through the dangers...
WASHINGTON AFP — Democrat Barack Obama, bidding to shut down scornful attacks on his White House credentials by Republican rival John McCain, said Monday he plans a pre-election trip to Iraq and Afghanistan. Senator Obama, newly endorsed by former vice president Al Gore, also went after McCain on...
