"the-washington-post" Articles & Blogs:
Oprah Charmed by Homeless Man
| • A homeless man in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District charmed Oprah into slipping him $100 cash through her limo window over the weekend. [NY Post] • General Motors reported its largest quarterly profit in 11 years at $2 billion, almost equal to its ...[Read on] |
War Watch: October Deadliest Month for Americans in Afghanistan
| • Taliban gunmen attacked a guest house in central Kabul this morning, killing six U.N. employees, one of whom was an American security guard. (New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC) • On Tuesday, eight American soldiers ...[Read on] |
10 'Obama Women' Who Are Changing Washington
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These powerful African American women, newly nicknamed the ‘Obama Women,’ have taken big jobs in the new administration and are some of the driving forces behind this new era of changePhoto Essay | Today 2:25 pmA new wave of women has hit Wash...[Read on] |
SAFE! US Ship Captain Saved in Dramatic Rescue
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Navy Seals lead an operation personally approved by President ObamaPost | Today 5:48 pm
Captain Richard Phillips ended Easter Sunday safe aboard the U.S. Navy Ship the USS Boxer, after Navy Seals rescued him from his Somali pirate captors in a dramatic ...[Read on] |
Sports Journalism, Athletes in for a Big Challenge
| TMZ.com, a leading gossip and celebrity news web site, has entered the sports media market, launching TMZ Sports at the start of the year. And if its recent coverage of the Gilbert Arenas story is any indication, established sports media outlets are facin...[Read on] |
Is Sarah Palin Destined for Cable TV?
| • Robert Pattinson is pretty bummed out by New York and its women. New York and women across the globe, on the other hand, are pretty fond of him. [Gatecrasher] • Colin Powell thinks it’s time to review the military’s “don’t ask don’t tell...[Read on] |
President Obama becomes first sitting president to attend WNBA game
| U.S. President Barack Obama, his daughter Sasha, and Shelia Johnson, owner
of the Washington Mystics, attend a Women’s National Basketball Association
(WNBA) game between the Washington Mystics and the Tulsa Shock in
Washington on August 1, 2010...[Read on] |
Obama’s First Year: Audacity Meets Reality
| On the first anniversary of Barack Obama’s historic election as president, the poetry of campaigning has slammed head-on into the prose of governing. The Washington establishment is predictably busy measuring Obama’s achievements against another arbit...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin's Rogue Memoir Neutralizes "The Washington Read"
| Of all the capital city’s quaint and tribal customs, none may be more singular than the phenomenon known as “The Washington Read.” This is the process in which buyers (or browsers) of the latest books about politics and government turn instantly to ...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Under Fire for Stimulus Rejection
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Alaskans are increasingly angry at their governor for refusing key components of the government’s stimulus packagePost | Today 9:35 am
Sarah Palin received an earful from constituents this weekend when dozens of Alaska voters gathered to protest t...[Read on] |
Paris Hilton Adopts 20 Rabbits, Media Deems This Newsworthy
| • So that whole Joaquin Phoenix breakdown was a hoax! I’m Still Here director Casey Affleck comes clean. [New York Times] • Paris Hilton adopted 20 rabbits after finding out they were destined to be snake food. [The Daily Mail] • Magician David Bl...[Read on] |
Brace Yourself: 40 Percent of Republicans Regularly Watch Fox News
| • From the department of statistics that won’t surprise you, 40 percent of Republicans watch Fox News regularly. [AP] • Resident Evil: Afterlife topped the box office this weekend taking in an estimated $27.7 million. [Variety] • Former House Spea...[Read on] |
Helen Thomas and the Perils of Overstaying Your Washington Welcome
| Helen Thomas takes notes during an informal press briefing with President Gerald Ford, 1976. (Yes, that’s chief of staff Dick Cheney looking on at the far left.) Photo from the Library of Congress. I am old enough to have been present in the White H...[Read on] |
USC women’s soccer defeats UCLA
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Playing in front of 8,527 fans at the Los Angeles Coliseum, a new NCAA Women’s Soccer regular season record, the USC Trojans defeated the UCLA Bruins by a score of 1-0. USC had not beaten UCLA in the regular season since 1998. Still, USC’s win over UC...[Read on] |
Rebecca Hamilton Reads from Fighting For Darfur
| After the Rwandan genocide in 1994, millions of people around the world responded to the mass atrocity, vowing “never again,” only to learn about a horrific wave of killings in Darfur—a region in western Sudan—nine years later. In ...[Read on] |
Donald Trump Unclear on Roe v. Wade Decision
| • The Japanese government is considering restricting re-entry access to evacuated areas surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant until all the radioactive containment water has been removed. Removing the water safely could take months. [The Huffington P...[Read on] |
Cannes news about women directors
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The good news is that as the Cannes Film Festival has started the press is still asking questions about why there are no women in competition.
Here are some pieces that I found that address the topic.
Jury President Tim Burton in an interview with the N...[Read on] |
Obama meets Phillies, What about National Pro Fastpitch?
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On Friday, President Obama met the Philadelphia Phillies in Washington, DC. As a former resident of the Philadelphia area, I certainly found this intriguing and exciting.
However, I couldn’t help myself from asking… when’s the last time a President...[Read on] |
Geithner's New Toxic Asset Plan Calls on Hedge Fund Help
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Geithner unveils plan to rid toxic assets from banks’ balance sheets, calls for private industry to share some riskCongress Taxing AIG Bonuses | Today 11:20 am
Yes, President Obama and others at the White House are angry over those big AIG bonuses...[Read on] |
Supporters of Sarah Palin's "feminism" getting desperate
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It's been nearly a month since I wrote this
piece in The Washington Post about Sarah Palin's fake
feminism, and I'm still seeing responses to it - some awesome,
some...well, not. I've gotten emails calling me a jealous whore, seen
articles desperat...[Read on] |
Is America Ready for a Female President?
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The author of a provocative new book on presidential politics, Notes from the Cracked Ceiling, explains why gender mattersA Friend Stopped By | Today 3:00 am
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Editor’s Note: Anne Kornblut, the White House correspondent for The Washington Pos...[Read on] |
Barb the Builder
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by Jesse Krohn, Intern,National Women's Law Center
Yesterday the Washington Post ran an article about women in a construction training program. The women featured came to the construction class from traditionally "female" occupations, mostly domestic an...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood in the News
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Women & Hollywood has been in the news twice this weekend. Thought I’d share:
From Ann Hornaday at the Washington Post:
Women & Film: With female characters, why does Hollywood fear that the stronger they are, the harder they fail?
This state of af...[Read on] |
Where we are as women (in Film)
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There must be something in the water because over the last week there have been several substantive pieces and one panel (which I will blog about later) discussing women and film. These discussions are not new, they happen all the time, but having two p...[Read on] |
Obama to Tap Kathleen Sebelius for HHS Post; Abortion Issue Rears Head
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Anti-abortion groups are up in arms over reports that President Obama will name the Kansas governor to head Health and Human ServicesPost | Today 9:35 am
President Barack Obama will announce Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his pick for Health and Human...[Read on] |
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