11 posts tagged “nytimes”
These were the words spoken to me by a friend at the end of a performance.
Obama/Clinton? Clinton/Obama? Obama/Edwards? Clinton/Clinton?
peace, nyenye
I must admit to my fascination with this latest episode of financial shenanigans. Apparently France's most creative and security tight financial institution, Société Générale (A Bank) has a rogue trader in its midst. Jérome Kerviel enters into the hall of fame of the Joseph Jetts and Michael Milkens. Will Jérome be forgiven? Or will he go down with history and be forgotten in a generation.
peace, nyenye
From the NYTimes
DEAR Diary:
Central Park West and 86th Street at 7 o’clock on a chilly morning. There’s no bus in sight and I’m running too late to walk. Reluctantly, I flag down a taxi.
“Keep going downtown,” I tell the driver. “I’ll get off at 69th Street. And, by the way, I hope you can change a $20 bill. It’s all I’ve got with me.”
“Nope, I can’t. You’re my first fare today. I don’t have enough change.”
“Then hold the clock and let me out.” (I’ve already spotted another cab coming down the deserted avenue.)
“Sit tight, miss. I’ll get you there. You don’t need to pay.”
More than a little surprised, I ask the driver for his address, intending to send him the fare. But he won’t hear of it. “The next time you go to the mosque,” he says, “just put some money in the collection box.”
“Actually, I’m on my way to the synagogue to help distribute food to people in need.”
“You see what I mean, miss?” asks the driver, a happy grin on his face. “Money isn’t everything.”
Linda Winston
Apparently the Fortune Cookie made famous in Chinese American restaurants, was initially made in Japan and still is.
peace, nyenye
Do you yell at store clerks? Are you always right? Do you need to speak with the manager?
A clip from the NYTimes article:
The guy at the register asked, “Would you like a bag for these?”
He was kidding, right... Who carries eight loose items? He asked again: Would I like a bag? I wanted to say: “No, I’m from Africa. I’ll just balance these on my head as I walk barefoot 126 miles to my village.” But the “new Paul” politely said, “Yes, I’d like a bag,” and I was on my way.
Two men wheeled there dead friend in a chair, to a check cashing place-to cash his check.
And they thought they would go unnoticed.
"Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling,” an exhibition about prefab housing opens July 20TH.
NYTimes Article
OK so there's a vacant lot next door to MOMA New York. So what do they do? They commission 5 architecture firms to build 5 prefabs on the lot. The foundations are about to be laid. The architects blog at moma.org
The Architects:
KieranTimberlake Associates of Philadelphia
Lawrence Sass of Cambridge, Mass
Douglas Gauthier and Jeremy Edmiston of Manhattan
Oskar Leo Kaufmann and Albert Rüf of Austria
Richard Horden of Horden Cherry Lee in London.
Maybe I'll see you when they get there.
peace, nyenye
“The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.”
Burt Shavitz aka Burt of Burt's Bees
You've probably already heard, but yes Burt's Bees has been sold to Clorox. Is Clorox going green? Or just buying into carbon neutrality? Only time will tell.
NYTimes article here.
peace, nyenye
According to the NYTimes, Intel has pulled out of the "One Laptop Per Child" Program. Apparently Intel sales people were offering a different computer built by Intel to the same buyers instead:(
The tone of the articles is accusatory. But hey Intel is a corporation trying to make money. Once those chips run out... They have to be able to come up with something else.
peace, nyenye
Fouah al-Farhan, a blogger in Saudia Arabia is being detained by the Saudi Interior Ministry according to the NYTimes. Apparently he knew that his detention was imminent due to the nature of his blog www.alfarhan.org His blog discusses social issues. I was unable to read his blog. The type was in Arabic. The times says the blog is posted in Arabic and English, but some of the type was also corrupted.
peace, nyenye
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