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Clinton Ends African Tour in Cape Verde
From Al Jazeera: Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has arrived in Cape Verde, ending her seven-nation tour of the African continent. Clinton, who started her journey in Kenya, flew from Liberia on Thursday to Sal, one of Cape Verde’s islands, and was due to meet Jose Maria Neves, the prime minister, at a…
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Bird of a New Feather: Vick Signs with Eagles
From CNN: Michael Vick, recently reinstated to the NFL after being freed from federal prison after a dogfighting-related conviction, has signed a two-year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles, according to his agent, Joel Segal. The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback reports to Philadelphia on Friday, Segal told CNN. Details of the deal were not immediately available…
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Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock
Forty years ago, several hundred thousand people (an exact number will never be known) gathered in Bethel, N.Y., for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Nearly everyone who was anyone in rock—Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Janis Joplin, Sly & the Family Stone, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Richie Havens—played at that mud-soaked music fest. And…
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Is Spelling a Cultural Activity?
The first time I heard about the South Asian Spelling Bee, the conversation sounded something like a vaudeville routine gone wrong: “Did you hear about the South Asian Spelling Bee?” “You mean, did I hear that South Asians keep winning the national spelling bee …” “No, I mean did you hear about the spelling bee…
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Why We Should Celebrate Woodstock
This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Hundreds of thousands of folks journeyed to Max Yasgur’s 600-acre farm to hear 32 rock acts, withstanding interminable traffic jams, monsoon-like thunderstorms, mud for days, sub-par sanitary conditions and a dwindling food supply—without resorting to anarchy. It was—as is evidenced by the…
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Clinton Compares Nigerian Elections to Florida 2000
On the last legs of her ten-day trip to sub-Saharan Africa, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared the US to Nigeria. Speaking generally about the need to lift the shroud of illegitimacy that often covers elections on the sub-continent—rather notably, in the disputed 2007 vote that seated current Nigeria president Umar Yar’Adua—Clinton told a town…
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An Expensive Evening Out
Dear Come Correct: My boyfriend and I often see a few other couples socially for things where we go together and split the tab. We’ve done dinner and a movie night, a weekend at the beach, a tasting at a winery. Every time we’ve done this, we’ve split the tab four ways—each couple pays 25%—and…
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What is Bill Clinton Reading?
Are You Interested in the Full Story? Laura Ling, one of the journalists who was recently freed after being held in North Korea, and her sister, journalist Lisa Ling, are said to be shopping a book proposal according to the Wall Street Journal. The book plans to discuss Ling’s time in captivity but will focus…
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Why 'Mad Men' Doesn't Care About Black People
In the opening scene of the first season of Mad Men, Don Draper, sitting in a swank restaurant, gets a light from a black busboy and then strikes up a conversation about his smoking and brand preferences. As this is 1960, an older, white, waiter comes over and asks if Draper is being bothered. Draper…
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