“Mayor Daley got it right Thursday when he was talking about politics, the Daley clan and clout: ‘Perception is everything.’ The perception was pretty bad when his nephew's investment firm in 2006 landed a deal to handle $68 million for five city employee pension funds. Chances are your nephew never got such a deal. And the perception of a sweet insider deal didn't fade even after Daley insisted he knew nothing about it.” Chicago Sun Times Editorial
Chicago Sun Times Editorial: If it smells like clout, that's usually what it is. Copyright by The Chicago Sun Times. June 13, 2009 http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1621225,CST-EDT-edit14.article
Daley is ill, but not over nephew's deal By John Kass. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. 9:54 AM CDT, June 10, 2009. Update: Shortly after 8:30 a.m.--probably after reading your comments about Wednesday's Kass column on chicagotribune.com--Mayor Richard Daley cancelled his public schedule. He was scheduled to take questions from reporters on all topics, including the federal investigation into how his nephew, Robert Vanecko, received almost $70 million in city pension funds to invest . Vanecko has resigned from the company DV Urban Realty. So the mayor won't be talking to reporters any time soon. It must be the flu. Let's give Mayor Richard Daley a big, gushy get-well wish, so he recovers quickly from the flu. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kassvanecko10jun10,0,1207600.column
International
U.N. Security Council Adopts Stiffer Curbs on North Korea By NEIL MacFARQUHAR. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 12, 2009. UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council unanimously passed a resolution on Friday to tighten sanctions targeting North Korea’s nuclear and missile development programs, including encouraging United Nations members to inspect cargo vessels and airplanes suspected of carrying weapons and other military materiel. China and Russia, key North Korean allies, were heavily involved in drafting the resolution during the nearly three weeks since North Korea’s May 25 underground nuclear test, but they resisted making the inspections and some other measures mandatory, so it remains unclear what impact the sanctions will have. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/world/asia/13nations.html?hp
U.S. Weighs Intercepting North Korean Shipments By DAVID E. SANGER. Copyright by The Associated Press. Published: June 7, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/world/asia/08korea.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
N Korea jails US reporters By Christian Oliver and Song Jung-a in Seoul, and Demetri Sevastopulo in Hong Kong. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 8 2009 07:10 | Last updated: June 8 2009 19:11 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/36b2496c-53f1-11de-a58d-00144feabdc0.html
Victory for Europe’s centre-right - Welfare state capitalism resilient By Tony Barber in Brussels. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 7 2009 14:55 | Last updated: June 8 2009 15:15 Europe’s centre-right parties on Monday celebrated a resounding election victory that underlined the resilience of the European model of welfare state capitalism in the face of the worst recession since the 1930s. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3beed410-5368-11de-be08-00144feabdc0.html
Russian Military Cuts Leave Soldiers Adrift By CLIFFORD J. LEVY. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 11, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/world/europe/12russia.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
China
China exports fall more sharply in May By Justine Lau in Hong Kong. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 11 2009 05:47 | Last updated: June 11 2009 05:47 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/83a0c0b4-563f-11de-ab7e-00144feabdc0.html
State stimulus spurs growth in China - New lending by Chinese banks rises By Justine Lau in Hong Kong and Jamil Anderlini in Beijing. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 12 2009 05:44 | Last updated: June 12 2009 19:52 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7f73bca-5706-11de-9a1c-00144feabdc0.html
Beijing steps up internet censorship - PC makers ordered to include filtering By Kathrin Hille in Beijing. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 8 2009 17:02 | Last updated: June 8 2009 17:02 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0e3755de-5443-11de-a58d-00144feabdc0.html
China Faces Criticism Over New Software Censor By ANDREW JACOBS. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 10, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/world/asia/11censor.html?th&emc=th
New York Times Editorial: China’s Computer Folly. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 11, 2009. China has accomplished remarkable things in the past 20 years, including building one of the world’s largest economies. Computers helped speed that development — and will be even more important in the future. So Beijing’s decision to require that all new personal computers sold in China contain software that bars access to certain Internet content seems particularly self-destructive and foolish. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/opinion/12fri3.html?th&emc=th
Mess-o-potamia
Ahmadi-Nejad wins landslide in Iran - Supreme leader declares historic election over By Najmeh Bozorgmehr and Anna Fifield in Tehran. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 13 2009 10:47 | Last updated: June 13 2009 15:22. The government of Iran on Saturday announced that incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad had won a landslide victory in the presidential election, amid claims from opposition leaders that the results in the historic contest had been “staged”. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fdd49372-57f9-11de-8cbb-00144feabdc0.html
Sunni Lawmaker Assassinated in Iraq By ROD NORDLAND. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 12, 2009. BAGHDAD — A lawmaker who headed the largest Sunni bloc in Iraq’s Parliament was assassinated at a mosque on Friday, a day after denouncing human rights abuses by the government. The gunman, who some security officials said appeared to be around 15 years old, fired on other worshippers and threw a grenade before being killed by mosque guards. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/world/middleeast/13iraq.html?ref=global-home
At Sunni Leader’s Funeral, a Display of Iraqi Unity By MARC SANTORA. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 13, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/world/middleeast/14iraq.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
Pakistanis Seen Rising Up Against Taliban By SABRINA TAVERNISE and IRFAN ASHRAF. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 9, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/world/asia/10pstan.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
Moderate Cleric Killed in Pakistan By WAQAR GILLANI and SABRINA TAVERNISE. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 12, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/world/asia/13pstan.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
Strong Bomb Hits Hotel in Northwest Pakistan By SALMAN MASOOD. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 9, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/world/asia/10peshawar.html?hp
U.S.-Backed Alliance Wins in Lebanon By MICHAEL SLACKMAN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 8, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/world/middleeast/09lebanon.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
National
Security Guard Is Killed in Shooting at Holocaust Museum in D.C. By DAVID STOUT. Copyright by The The New York Times. Published: June 10, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/11shoot.html?_r=1&hpw
Court: Coleman must pay Franken $95,000 in court costs. Copyright by The Associated Press. June 11, 2009 - 1:31 PM. A three-judge panel today required Republican Norm Coleman to pay Democrat Al Franken $94,783 to cover court costs in the seven-week U.S. Senate trial. The ruling, by the panel that heard the trial, approves an administrative decision last month by the Ramsey County clerk's office. Franken's team had sought $161,510, but a deputy county clerk rejected a request that Coleman pay Franken for his cost of obtaining public records that made up many of the exhibits in the trial and some other expenses. http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/47594802.html?elr=KArksUUUU
New York Times Editorial: Honest Justice. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 8, 2009. The right to a fair hearing before an impartial judge, untainted by money or special interests, is at the heart of the nation’s justice system and the rule of law. That right is more secure following a 5-to-4 ruling on Monday by the United States Supreme Court. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/opinion/09tue1.html?ref=global
Justices Tell Judges Not to Rule on Major Backers By ADAM LIPTAK. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 8, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/us/politics/09scotus.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Chicago Tribune Editorial: Courting trouble. Copyright © Chicago Tribune, 2009. June 9, 2009. Judges are elected in most states, including Illinois. The main value of Monday's U.S. Supreme Court decision in a West Virginia case is to provide another good reason why judicial elections are a bad idea. In 2002, a coal company won $50 million in damages from a competitor, A.T. Massey Coal Co., in court. With both an election and an appeal to the state Supreme Court looming, Massey CEO Donald Blankenship spent more than $3 million in a successful effort to unseat incumbent Justice Warren McGraw. The winning candidate, Brent Benjamin, joined the court, rebuffed requests that he recuse himself and cast the deciding vote to overturn the verdict. That's pretty astonishing, even from our vantage point in ethics-challenged Illinois. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/chi-0609edit2jun09,0,609661.story
CIA Urges Judge To Keep Bush-Era Documents Sealed - Al-Qaeda Could Use Contents, Agency Says By R. Jeffrey Smith. Copyright by The Washington Post. Tuesday, June 9, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060804117.html?hpid=topnews
First Guantanamo inmate transferred to U.S. for trial - Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is to appear in a New York court today in connection with the 1998 bombings that killed 224 people at U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. By Mark Silva. Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times. 6:44 AM CDT, June 9, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-na-guantanamo-trial10-2009jun10,0,2411221.story
Geithner’s plans for Wall Street regulation - Revised reforms reveal power of entrenched interests By Edward Luce in Washington. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 11 2009 20:50 | Last updated: June 11 2009 20:50 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/148b4b6a-56bf-11de-9a1c-00144feabdc0.html
US ‘pay tsar’ to vet executive packages - Plans for new ‘say on pay’ legislation By Tom Braithwaite in Washington. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 10 2009 16:06 | Last updated: June 10 2009 20:43 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c8ffffee-55cc-11de-ab7e-00144feabdc0.html
New York Times Editorial: Paying for Universal Health Coverage. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 6, 2009. For Congress and the administration to keep the promise of comprehensive health care reform, they will have to find the political will to pay for universal coverage and other investments that are needed right away but will not produce quick savings. The cost could reach $1.5 trillion over the next decade. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07sun1.html?_r=1&hpw
Obama Administration Finds Health-Care Model in Green Bay By Ceci Connolly. Copyright by The Washington Post. Thursday, June 11, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061003669.html?hpid=topnews
Doctors’ Group Opposes Public Insurance Plan By ROBERT PEAR. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 10, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/politics/11health.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Robert Reich's Blog - How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do. Copyright by Robert Reich. Friday, June 05, 2009 http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/06/public-option-smokescreens-and-what-you.html
GOP Bashing
The Importance of Being Obama By Eugene Robinson. Copyright by the Washington Post. Tuesday, June 9, 2009. I used to fear that President Obama was overestimating the power of his personal history as an instrument of foreign policy. Now I wonder if he might have been underestimating. In several interviews during the long presidential campaign, Obama mentioned the potential impact in other countries of seeing an American president with an appearance and a life story like none of his predecessors. He spoke of how the Muslim world especially, addressed by a president who had a Muslim father and who spent years of his childhood in a Muslim country, might be more inclined to believe that the United States is not an enemy of Islam. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060803501.html
Crazy right-wing myths about Obama 2.0 - The post-inauguration edition of odd things conservatives believe about Obama. Teleprompters! Hitler Youth! Satan! Copyright by By Salon.com. Jun. 08, 2009 http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/08/obama_myths/print.html
Chicago Sun Times Editorial: False outrage = true stupidity. Copyright by The Chicago Sun Times. June 9, 2009. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, has joined the Fake Outrage Over Obama Club. At least we hope his outrage is fake. If not -- if Grassley's anger is for real -- then he's plain stupid.When will this end? When will President Obama's loudest critics understand that he is popular in part because he talks to the American people as if they are smart -- and they should give it a try? On Sunday, Grassley complained that Obama has the "nerve" to tell Congress it's "time to deliver" on health-care legislation while he goes "sightseeing in Paris." As if the average American would begrudge a president a few hours downtime. We're not that stupid. http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1613081,CST-EDT-edit09b.article
Keeping up with the Obamas By Clarence Page. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. June 10, 2009. When it comes to annoying somebody or other, American presidents can't catch a break even when they decide to take a break. As predictably as potholes follow Chicago winters, critics pounce on presidential vacations as being too extravagant, too self-indulgent.That's why some of the people who have been complaining that President Barack Obama is trying to do too much in his first year in office also complained when he took his wife out for a dinner and a play in New York. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped06010bamajun10,0,3700008.story
Half-Baked Alaska - Sarah Palin's Dysfunctional Organization May Be Her Undoing By Kathleen Parker. Copyright by The Washington Post. Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and GOP "It" girl, can warm up the Republican base like a hot toddy in a duck blind. But further inside the party organization, the air is a little nippy. What happened? In a word, bungling. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/09/AR2009060902596.html
David Letterman defends Sarah Palin joke BY VERNE GAY. Copyright © 2009, Newsday Inc. 10:33 PM CDT, June 10, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ny-etdave114739904jun10,0,7596473.story
Jesse Ventura 'schools' The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck on waterboarding / torture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgarV13g6QM
Chicagoland
Ill. sues village accused of using tainted water By MICHAEL TARM. Copyright 2009 Associated Press. 6:41 PM CDT, June 9, 2009. CHICAGO - The state of Illinois filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a Chicago suburb for allegedly drawing drinking water from a contaminated well for decades, then lying about it to residents and environmental authorities. The 58-page complaint, filed by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, accuses the village of Crestwood of knowingly providing false information about the water supply to more than 11,000 residents and to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-contaminatedwater,0,6342339.story
Washington Post Editorial: Sen. Roland Burris (D-Blago) - The hole gets deeper for the tainted senator from Illinois. Copyright by The Washington Post. Monday, June 8, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/07/AR2009060702018.html
Salon, art gallery opens in Three Oaks. Copyright by The Herald-Palladium. June 13, 2009. THREE OAKS — A new business in Three Oaks is billing itself as part hair salon and part consignment store with an emphasis on art, antiques and jewelry. The store is named Infinitas, the Latin word for infinity. “We envision a store that has a little bit of everything for everyone,” Bill Rattan, owner and stylist, said in a news release. Infinitas is a full-service hair salon for men and women with massage services available by appointment. It carries two product lines: American Crew, which is formulated for men, and Aquage, which is for everyone. http://iretiredfromnewsletters.blogspot.com/2009/06/salon-art-gallery-opens-in-three-oaks.html
Bob Sirott leaves WMAQ-Ch. 5 By Phil Rosenthal. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. June 11, 2009 http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2009/06/bob-sirott-out-at-wmaqch-5.html
Your Lack of Money
New US jobless claims ease - US retail sales rebound in May By Alan Rappeport in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 11 2009 14:26 | Last updated: June 11 2009 14:26 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1ff21b00-567e-11de-9a1c-00144feabdc0.html
US consumer confidence hits nine-month high - Inflation fears dim economic outlook By Alan Rappeport in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 12 2009 15:57 | Last updated: June 12 2009 15:57. US consumer confidence rose in June to its highest level in nine months as a recent stock market rally and signs of economic stability have begun to peel away some of gloom cast by the recession. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0edd2bfc-575f-11de-8c47-00144feabdc0.html
Obama’s spending drive focuses on jobs - Plan to create 600,000 jobs in 100 days By Edward Luce in Washington. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 8 2009 19:07 | Last updated: June 8 2009 19:07 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6b9600a2-5454-11de-a58d-00144feabdc0.html
US wholesale inventories slide in April By Alan Rappeport in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 9 2009 16:12 | Last updated: June 9 2009 16:12 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2db8a09c-5507-11de-b5d4-00144feabdc0.html
Ten US banks to repay Tarp funds - Treasury to recoup $68bn By Alan Rappeport in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 9 2009 14:51 | Last updated: June 9 2009 15:24 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a837644a-54ec-11de-b953-00144feabdc0.html
Revenue at Craigslist Is Said to Top $100 Million By BRAD STONE. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 9, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/technology/internet/10craig.html?th&emc=th
McDonald’s continues to defy downturn - Low-price menus attract consumers By Jonathan Birchall in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 8 2009 18:37 | Last updated: June 8 2009 18:37 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dbfd5548-544f-11de-a58d-00144feabdc0.html
Brazil economy shrinks less than expected - GDP falls 1.8 per cent in first quarter By Jonathan Wheatley in São Paulo. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 9 2009 16:18 | Last updated: June 9 2009 16:18 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/28289c92-5500-11de-b5d4-00144feabdc0.html
Setback for eurozone recovery hopes - Sharp fall in industrial production By Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 12 2009 11:04 | Last updated: June 12 2009 11:04 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/95f93438-5736-11de-8c47-00144feabdc0.html
Industry Slumps, but Prius Inspires Waiting List By HIROKO TABUCHI. Copyright by The Associated Press. Published: June 12, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/business/global/13prius.html?th&emc=th
Supreme Court Clears Way for the Sale of Chrysler to Fiat By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 9, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/business/global/10chrysler.html?hp
Fiat seals deal with Chrysler - Marchionne to become chief executive By John Reed in London and Bernard Simon in Toronto. Published: June 10 2009 16:05 | Last updated: June 10 2009 16:05 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0ca5f026-55cf-11de-ab7e-00144feabdc0.html
Koenigsegg set to buy Saab - Likely buyer for GM’s premium brand By John Reed. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 11 2009 23:49 | Last updated: June 11 2009 23:49 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/86e65646-56d8-11de-9a1c-00144feabdc0.html
Commodities
Concerns for recovery as oil surges - Crude rises to almost $72 a barrel By Javier Blas in London. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 10 2009 19:08 | Last updated: June 10 2009 19:08 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d73e2e0-55e9-11de-ab7e-00144feabdc0.html
Toxic debt fears undermine euro - Pound highlights eurozone fears By Peter Garnham. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 12 2009 19:18 | Last updated: June 12 2009 19:18. Talk of the pound dropping to parity against the euro has evaporated as concerns over the eurozone’s banking system intensify. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e06f566c-576f-11de-8c47-00144feabdc0.html
US long-term interest rates hit high - Investors fear debt levels threaten recovery By Michael Mackenzie and Alan Rappeport in New York and David Oakley in London. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 10 2009 20:23 | Last updated: June 10 2009 21:45. US long-term interest rates rose to the highest level of the year on Wednesday, threatening the “green shoots” of recovery, after the latest sale of 10-year government debt met with a tepid response from inflation-wary investors. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/68ca2d04-55f2-11de-ab7e-00144feabdc0.html
Yield rise threatens recovery - Yields have been rising in the US and UK By Michael Mackenzie and David Oakley. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 8 2009 19:20 | Last updated: June 8 2009 19:20 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7b65deca-5455-11de-a58d-00144feabdc0.html
Housing
Mortgage rates hit 7-month high - Refis hit the brakes. Copyright © 2009, Associated Press. 10:59 AM CDT, June 11, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ap-mortgage-rates-jun11,0,4433635.story
Recycled homes, one box at a time http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/12/recycled.homes/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
GLBT
New York Times Editorial: The Ban on Gays in the Military. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 9, 2009. The Supreme Court’s refusal this week to hear a challenge to the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military is not much of a legal setback. The court did not address the merits of the case, and another lawsuit still moving through the courts may be a better vehicle for challenging the benighted policy. Even so, relying on a conservative court to make things right would be a gamble. Unfortunately, neither President Obama nor Congress shows much appetite for moving to end a ban that is not only unfair to gay men and lesbians but damaging to the military as well. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/opinion/10wed2.html?th&emc=th
Gay New Yorkers Head to Greenwich for Weddings By LISA W. FODERARO. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 10, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/nyregion/11greenwich.html?th&emc=th
Why I Now Support Gay Marriage By TOM SUOZZI. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 12, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/opinion/13suozzi.html?th&emc=th
Study Links Gay Marriage Bans to Rise in HIV Rate By Elaine Justice: 404.787.0643. Jun. 4, 2009. Copyright by Emory University http://www.emory.edu/home/news/releases/2009/06/study-links-gay-marriage-bans-to-rise-in-hiv-rate.html?utm_campaign=marriagebanATLANTA
Activists call for gay rights march By Jennifer Dobner. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. June 8, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-gay-rights-08jun08,0,7702510.story
Chastity Bono Announces Sex Change. Copyright By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Published: June 11, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/11/arts/AP-US-People-Chastity-Bono.html?scp=1&sq=chastity%20bono&st=cse
Technical
After Long Wait, Stations Switch Off Analog By BRIAN STELTER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 12, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/business/media/13digital.html?th&emc=th
Snow Leopard gets richer, thinner, cheaper than Windows 7 By Prince McLean. Copyright by Apple Insider.com. Published: 05:10 PM EST, Tuesday, June 9, 2009. After trying to beat back the Mac's increasing encroachment into the PC world with ads focused on price, Microsoft's club has been picked up by Apple to give Windows 7 an embarrassing pummeling in terms of price. Explaining that the company wanted as many Mac OS X Leopard users as possible to upgrade to the new Snow Leopard, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller announced a $29 upgrade price for Snow Leopard and a $49 family pack upgrade. Users who buy a new Mac between the June 8 announcement and the release of Snow Leopard can get a copy of the new software for even cheaper, just $9.95 to cover shipping and handling. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/09/snow_leopard_gets_richer_thinner_cheaper_than_windows_7.html
Apple unveils new version of iPhone - Company cuts price of 3G model to $99 By David Gelles and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 8 2009 20:05 | Last updated: June 8 2009 20:15 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ba0452d0-545d-11de-a58d-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
Microsoft Browser Offer Fails to Impress Europe By KEVIN J. O’BRIEN. Copyright by The New Yprk Times. Published: June 12, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/technology/companies/13euro.html?th&emc=th
Medical
W.H.O. Raises Alert Level as Flu Spreads to 74 Countries By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 11, 2009. After weeks of very public wrestling with its own conscience, the World Health Organization declared the global swine flu outbreak a pandemic on Thursday. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/world/asia/12flu.html?hp
My Choice - I grew up believing that abortions are wrong. Now, I expect to perform them someday. By Rozalyn Farmer Love. Sunday, June 7, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060502006.html
New York Times Editorial: Protection for Doctors. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 7, 2009. After last month’s fatal shooting of Dr. George Tiller, Attorney General Eric Holder took the prudent step of ordering the United States Marshals Service to provide security for certain abortion clinics and physicians thought to be at heightened risk. The response by the federal government must not end there. Mr. Holder and Congress should review the killing of Dr. Tiller to determine whether there are systemic problems that led to apparent gaps in the F.B.I.’s performance in the case. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/opinion/08mon2.html?th&emc=th
H.I.V. Found in 22 Actors in Sex Films Since 2004 By GARDINER HARRIS. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 12, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/health/13hiv.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
New York Times Editorial: Tobacco Regulation, at Last. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 11, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/opinion/12fri1.html?th&emc=th
Congress Sends Obama Bill to Regulate Tobacco By Lyndsey Layton. Copyright by The Washington Post. Friday, June 12, 2009; 1:24 PM
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Addicts have made a choice By Christopher Caldwell. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 12 2009 19:36 | Last updated: June 12 2009 19:36. The US Congress voted this week to let the Food and Drug Administration regulate tobacco almost out of existence, but could not work up the nerve to ban it. The latest of America’s periodic bouts of prohibitionism is thus coming to an end in a typically ambivalent fashion. Authorities are split over whether people are moral agents, competent to make their own decisions about drugs, or helpless victims; and whether drug abuse is a choice or a disease. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cccd9e82-577b-11de-8c47-00144feabdc0.html
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Boston Globe union rejects pay cuts - US daily may be shut down By Kenneth Li in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 9 2009 05:20 | Last updated: June 9 2009 05:20 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bb8b8d46-54a6-11de-a58d-00144feabdc0.html
New York Times sounds out bids for Boston Globe - Goldman Sachs approaches potential buyers By Kenneth Li in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 10 2009 20:02 | Last updated: June 10 2009 20:09 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3f42d83c-55ed-11de-ab7e-00144feabdc0.html
A Big Night for Broadway, and Especially for Billy By PATRICK HEALY. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 7, 2009. Broadway productions with roots in the London theater dominated the 63rd annual Tony Awards on Sunday, with “Billy Elliot” winning best musical and nine other awards and “God of Carnage” picking up honors for best play, best director and best actress. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/theater/theaterspecial/08tony.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1244492910-HyCW9K6kwJfEnG8HYLuEAA
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Miss California USA Prejean dethroned By Alan Duke. Copyright by CNN News. June 11, 2009. http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/06/10/prejean.dethroned/index.html
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