Tag: penchant
Facebook goes from zero to $10bn in three years
"It is the scourge of middle managers, who fear their employees spend too much time using it, and beloved by people with a penchant for gaining new friends and indulging in internet Scrabble.
Now Facebook, the phenomenally popular social networking site, is at the centre of...
Paul Wolfowitz's fatal weakness by Juan Cole
"The cronyism that may cost him his World Bank job is also what caused the Iraq debacle.
By Juan Cole
May. 14, 2007 | The executive board of the World Bank mulled a possible vote of no confidence in the leadership of its president, Paul Wolfowitz, this weekend. How did the...
Apocalypto - Gibson's stunning vision of the end
"Mel Gibson's epic about a refugee from the savagery and cruelty at the end of Mayan civilization. Rated R for sequences of graphic violence and disturbing images. Opened Friday in area theaters.
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Jimmy Carter's Jewish Problem
"For those with eyes to see, there were hints as far back as the 1976 presidential campaign of the trouble to come. Early that year, Harperâs magazine published âJimmy Carterâs Pathetic Lies,â a devastating exposé of Carterâs record in Georgia by a...
