Niall Horan Excited But Exhausted As One Direction Hit Florida
He's one fifth of the most famous boyband in the world, but Niall Horan didn't fancy a wild night as One Direction arrived in Florida yesterday - instead he headed to bed at around midnight on the eve...
View ArticleBook review: Learn to Tie with the Rabbit & the Fox by Sybrina Durant (Video)
Rating for Learn to Tie with the Rabbit & the Fox by Sybrina Durant 3 Overall Learn to Tie with the Rabbit & the Fox is a fun book to learn about tying a tie. The illustrations are colorful and...
View ArticleTony Lucca returns to 'The Voice' to debut 'Never Gonna Let You Go' live
Lucca became a full-fledged touring singer-songwriter following his early '90s days on "The All New Mickey Mouse Club" with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake. He came back into...
View ArticleEisgruber invites Class of 2017 to join him in reading Appiah book (Princeton...
(Source: Princeton University) Current Stories Features Science & Tech People Emergency Alerts University Bulletin Archive Eisgruber invites Class of 2017 to join him in reading Appiah book Posted...
View ArticleCasino 'eye in the sky' knew you before NSA
Related Columns WASHINGTON, June 12, 2013 ― If you get that creepy feeling that you are being watched, bet on it; you are. The Shadow Knows. Nationwide, casinos have known you like a brother, or Big...
View ArticleReviewing 'All the Great Books' in 98 minutes
If you've simply been too busy to read all of the world's great literature, the Columbia Festival of the Arts has got a time-saving program for you. When the three-member Reduced Shakespeare Company...
View ArticleSummer Reading Contest | What Interested You Most in The Times This Week?
In the news this week: Edward J. Snowden, a former C.I.A. computer technician, leaked information about the nation’s surveillance programs. He maintains that he performed a public service, even as...
View ArticleThe NSA and the Infrastructure of the Surveillance State
It has long been known that cyberspace is one of the main battlegrounds in the 21st century. However, last week’s shocking revelations about the NSA’s surveillance and data-gathering activities...
View ArticleBritta Slopianka: One of my friends will be executed tomorrow evening.
Tomorrow night, one of my longest term friends in the United States will be executed. There is not much hope for a stay. He has spent 40 years of his life in prison, half of them on Florida's death row...
View ArticleSales of Orwell's '1984' spike after NSA leak
By Charles Riley @CRrileyCNN June 12, 2013: 5:53 AM ET A poster from a BBC production of 1984 featuring the novel's famous tagline. HONG KONG (CNNMoney) The creation of the National Security Agency was...
View ArticleGo Away with golfer Gary Player to his favorite places to swing a club
Golf legend Gary Player. (The Denver Post) Before he turned 30, golf legend Gary Player became the third person to win the Grand Slam. In 1974, after winning 165 tournaments, Player was inducted into...
View ArticleBook News: CIA Nominee Catches Grief Over Bookstore Erotica Readings
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. A breathless Daily Beast report that the woman nominated to be the CIA deputy director, Avril D. Haines, owned a small...
View ArticleMayim Bialik Reveals Her Favorite Superpower and How The Man of Steel Shaves
With Man of Steel hitting theaters on June 14, the trailer reminds superhero and comic book fans of a long-standing and troubling question: “how does Superman shave??” In the trailer, Clark Kent sports...
View ArticleNew Jersey Gov. Christie Christie 'slow jams the news' with Jimmy Fallon
Turns out Chris Christie has a set of pipes. The outspoken New Jersey Governor appeared on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” Wednesday night for a hilarious musical performance that broached his...
View ArticleWatch: Full 1956 & 1984 Movie Adaptations Of George Orwell's Sudden...
| There is some kind of irony in the latest news to be making the rounds. You've probably already seen this on Twitter or Facebook, in the wake of the NSA scandal and whistleblowing by Edward Snowden...
View ArticleNSA surveillance spurs Amazon sales of George Orwell's '1984'
Videos Report: Contract worker is surveillance source Report: Gov't collecting Verizon phone records Galleries Web links Sales of George Orwell's novel "1984," featuring a futuristic totalitarian...
View ArticleCelebrities' Favorite Body Parts: Stars Reveal Their Best Physical Features...
Although we tend to talk about celebrities as if they're perfect, a lot of stars admit they have their own image issues. Still, that doesn't mean they're not willing to gush about the parts of their...
View ArticleBook News: Inmate Fights For His Right To Read Werewolf Erotica
7:20 AM The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. A San Francisco appeals court that a werewolf erotica novel must be returned to Andres Martinez, an inmate of...
View ArticleReview of 'The Time of My Life' by Cecelia Ahern, a must-read
Rating for The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern 4 Lucy Silchester once again ignores another beautiful envelope containing an appointment card that was slipped under her door. It’s not that she’s in...
View ArticleBloomsday goes global with a round the world reading
One of the books on Leopold Bloom’s shelves, in Ulysses, is called In the Track of the Sun. Early on in Ulysses, Bloom reflects on what it would be like to accompany the sun in its progress through the...
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