Warren Buffett and George Soros might be two of Americas most famous and successful investors, but Soros seems the less covered in business circles, which is odd, because I find him infinitely complex and interesting though my knowledge of him at the moment is still scant. Soros on Soros...
SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 22, 1997--Further cementing its market position as a leading creator, consolidator and re-marketer of electronic travel and entertainment information, Worldview Systems Corporation today announced 20 new Internet distribution agreements -- including CUC International Inc., Hilton Hotels Corporation and BigYellowSM -- bringing its total Web site partnerships to...
HISTORY CONSISTENTLY PROVES the wisdom of the Founders exceeded their own comprehension and imagination. I doubt Thomas Jefferson, James Madison or Charles Pinckney could fathom an African American-led nonviolent civil rights movement that based their cause on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, especially after...
The most urgent issue facing the next president beyond the economy will be how to deal with a remote area along the Afghan-Pakistan border, the new haven for al-Qaeda and radical jihadis. "The most likely near-term attack on the United States" is likely to originate there, says Adm. Michael Mullen,...
This week's financial implosion has shifted attention away from foreign policy in the presidential contest. Neither candidate has been inspiring in this arena. But we have only two choices. So who can best dig America out from the mess President Bush's foreign policy has made? John McCain is campaigning on...
Early look Body of Lies Opens Oct. 10 --- Ridley Scott has made a career out of bringing hostile worlds to life, but he may find the trickiest terrain is the political cinematic landscape. The filmmaker behind Alien, Blade Runner...
As the presidential candidates bone up for their foreign-policy debate Friday, they should study the speeches of Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Gates, the CIA director under Bush père , had happily moved on to the presidency of Texas A&M but was brought back to Washington to rescue defense policy from...
Plans to Use Additional Capital to Expand Retail Distribution Network PALO ALTO, Calif. -- ooma, Inc. today announced that it secured a third-round of equity funding totaling $16 million from new and existing investors including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Worldview Technology Partners, The Founders Fund Management LLC, WI Harper...
IT could be one giant leap for Geordiekind. From the Quayside to the cosmos, a North East company will send amateur astronauts into space. Just launched at a base by the Tyne in Newcastle, Worldview Spaceflight will give anyone the chance to cross the final frontier....
A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE: Putting Christian Truth Claims to the Worldview Test by K. R. Samples. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2007. 312 pages, index. Paperback; $17.99. ISBN: 0801068223. Kenneth Samples is the senior research fellow at Reasons To Believe, a theological think-tank that seeks to communicate the...
Although I understand that a segment of the Record's readers will be unable to join me in this sentiment, I heartily congratulate the 218th General Assembly of the PCUSA for their courage to love and be inclusive to homosexual members of their church. In June, their assembly voted to lift...
Re Susan Macrae's letter, July/August She writes that she understands with diminishing hope that, as Calvin Brown states, "the Muslim faith is not on par with Christianity in its saving capacity." This is not Calvin Brown's idea, it is God's. Nowhere in the Bible does God...
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, the longtime military dictator who resigned Monday, was an ambivalent ally in the fight against radical Islamists. Although the Pakistani leader did arrest some key al-Qaeda operatives, he let militants take over whole areas of his country along the Afghan border - where al-Qaeda's leadership is...
WASHINGTON -- Something extraordinary happens between 18 and 24 months of age. Toddlers take giant strides in their ability to visually inspect, recognize and manipulate items, putting the kids on par with adults given comparable tasks. To track this developmental leap for the first time, researchers at Indiana...
Nationally Broadcast Non-Debate Format Provides Opportunity for Long-form Discussion on Leadership, Stewardship, Worldview and Vision for America's Role LAKE FOREST, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, respective presumed Republican and Democratic presidential nominees, will end the primary season Aug. 16 by joining...
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama and John McCain make back-to-back appearances Saturday at an evangelical conference aimed at getting the presidential hopefuls' views on issues dealing with leadership and compassion. The goal of the forum at the 22,000-member Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., is a "conversation, not a...
Handbook of school counseling. Ed. by Hardin L.K. Coleman and Christine Yeh. Routledge 2008 894 pages $89.95 Paperback LB1027 In recognition of the increasingly diverse student body in U.S. schools today, Coleman (U. of...
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." ANSWER St..Augustine (b. 354) Philosopher, theologian, and Bishop of Hippo Algeria, St Augustine's thought profoundly influenced the medieval worldview...
Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834. By Emily Clark. (Chapel Hill: Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, c. 2007. Pp. xvi, 287. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5822-6; cloth, $59.95, ISBN...
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