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- Equality chief causes stink with royal gaffe
- LONDON AFP — The head of the equality watchdog said sorry Monday after causing a stink with an off-colour joke about the late Queen Mother during an after-dinner speech. Commission for Equality and Human Rights chief Trevor Phillips reportedly drew gasps when he quipped about dancing with Queen Elizabeth,...
- Research articles 2007-06-18
- Allison, Gardner join ranks of Arkansas CEOs
- THE NUMBER OF PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES in Arkansas has remained stable since Arkansas Business last profiled their chief executive officers in July 2005. But that doesn't mean the roster remained static. * One company, Pocahontas Bancorp of Jonesboro, will be acquired this month by IberiaBank Corp. of Lafayette, La.;...
- Research articles 2006-12-11
- History out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History.(Book review)
- History out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History. By Sande Cohen. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. vii + 307 pages. Over the years, Sande Cohen has established himself as one of the harshest critics of the academy in...
- Research articles 2006-09-22
- Letter
- Freelance writer seeks stories, anecdotes, and photographs from Navy and Air Force members who participated in polar aviation operations with the C-47/R-4D. Contact Noel Gillespie at noel.design@xtra.co.nz or 74A Norwood Street, Christchurch, New Zealand.
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Latvians invited to mark April Fool's Day with anti-Soviet jokes
- RIGA AFP — Latvians have been invited to mark April Fool's Day Friday at the Occupation Museum in Riga's Old Town telling anti-Soviet jokes that could have cost a jester 10 years in a labour camp during Stalin's rule. "Telling anti-Soviet anecdotes was a mental and spiritual protest against...
- Research articles 2005-03-31
- A double dose of top comedy
- Byline: By Gordon Barr Showbusiness Reporter, Gordon Barr, , has a round-up of where the best laughs are Comedy fans get two headline acts for the price of one in Newcastle next week. The Corner House Comedy Club has a pair of well-known comics lined up. ...
- Research articles 2003-11-21
- Lean Enterprise: A Synergistic Approach to Minimizing Waste
- Lean Enterprise: A Synergistic Approach To Minimizing WasteWilliam A. Levinson and Raymond A. Rerick, ASQ Quality Press, 600 N. Plankinton Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53201, 2002, 236 pp., $28 member, $35 list book.Lean enterprise is a big concept. It can entail all the tools of quality control, process improvement and supply...
- Research articles 2003-08-01
- Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)
- Hillary getting ready for the White House Hillary Clinton is out stumping for her future glory, selling her anecdotes and revisionist notes to all the dizzy dolts and died-in-the-wool Clinton crusaders. This partisan crowd surely will make her book a hot copy. Keeping the...
- Research articles 2003-06-22
- Blair's claim of racism is just another con job
- Of all the mischief Jayson Blair wrought during his five-year fraud spree, nothing quite matches the malice he displayed last week, when he signaled that his own defense of the indefensible will be built around race. The 27-year-old former reporter's deceit has deeply shaken The New York Times,...
- Research articles 2003-05-25
- Del Norte, Colo., Astronaut Pays Tribute to Fallen Columbia Crew.
- By Erin Smith, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 5--Del Norte astronaut Kent Rominger joined President Bush and other dignitaries Tuesday in addressing a special memorial service at the Johnson Space Center in Houston for the seven astronauts of...
- Research articles 2003-02-05
- Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground.(Book Review)
- By ROGER S. MAGNUSSON. Yale University Press. 306 pp. $35. Roger S. Magnusson opines that mercy killing should be legalized and regulated because, in no small part, "illicit euthanasia" is already practiced. But so too are incest and self-mutilation, and no reasonable person would...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- So Ole Says to Lena: Folk Humor of the Upper Midwest
- So Ole Says to Lena: Folk Humor of the Upper Midwest Compiled and edited by James P Leary The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisc., 2001 258 pages, paperback, $19.95 This second-edition collection includes jokes, humorous anecdotes and tall tales from ethnic groups (Woodland Indians, French, Cornish, Germans, Irish and...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Science of Self-Control, The
- The Science of Self-Control. Howard Rachlin. 2000. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 220 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0674000935. An intriguing and tightly-written work of behavioral psychology that sets forth the scientific underpinnings of self-control, including habit and willpower, simple and complex ambivalence, addiction, and social cooperation. A chapter on rules and...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Making Policy by Political Anecdote
- Successful politicians are masters of the apt anecdote, swaying voters by using emotion-laden stories to argue the point rather than using hard facts and statistics. What makes the perfect political anecdote? "Most importantly, it has to be a tearjerker" says government professor Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia....
- Research articles 2001-08-20
- Your Letters : Reader's letter
- THANKS to the BBC for employing John McEnroe. His quirky humour, anecdotes and brilliant comments make him the star commentator at Wimbledon. M. Holby, Lytton Grove, South West London
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois.(Review) (book review)
- Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois. By Max M. Mintz.(New York: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 232. $28.95.) In this book, the author has produced a highly readable narrative of the American Revolution on the New York frontier....
- Research articles 2001-03-22
- The Connecticut Forum Presents 'A Historical Evening' with Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Halberstam, Manning Marable and Ben Wattenberg
- Lifestyles Editors & Entertainment Writers HARTFORD, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 9, 2000 An exciting panel shares their insights, anecdotes, and beliefs in the relevance and impact of history The Connecticut Forum announces the second Forum event of its 2000-2001 season: A Historical Evening, Thursday, November 30, 2000, 8:00pm,...
- Research articles 2000-11-09
- Highland Histories: Jacobitism and Second Sight.
- Duncan Forbes, the Lord President of Scotland during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 and a gentle, fussy man in earnest service of the Hanoverians, earned himself an unlikely place in cultural memory by making one of British history's most famous prophecies. In the delirious interval after...
- Research articles 2000-09-22
- Letters
- I Spy lunch Sir: That very brave man, Oleg Gordievsky, certainly enjoyed one of the `sizeable expense accounts' at the disposal of KGB officers which he describes ('A globe-trotting dirty dozen', 16 January). During the three years he spent in London, ostensibly as a diplomat, I lunched with him every...
- Research articles 1999-01-23
- Another "Mr. Gorsky" story.
- Like the AT&T commercials used to say, all the best business calls are personal calls. Searching for the details of an amusing anecdote led me to a perfect illustration of the problems and promise of Internet news. Stop Me If You've Heard This One...
- Research articles 1996-04-01
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