World - brief
A brief for Justice Kennedy - New York Times
27 May 2012, 7:58 pm
THRILLING as it was to hear a sitting president endorse marriage rights for gay and lesbian Americans, there is one man whose opinion on the subject matters more than President Obama’s. Justice Anthony Kennedy is the likely deciding vote when ...
A brief Look at 'A Hispanic Conundrum' - NationalJournal.com
25 May 2012, 1:48 pm
Texas's state's rapid population growth netted it four new congressional seats in reapportionment this cycle, and about two-thirds of the 4.3 million people Texas added from 2000 to 2010 were Hispanic. Yet the Lone Star State isn't really ...
The Bodega: A brief History of an Urban Institution - Time
25 May 2012, 12:08 pm
In some parts of America, it’s called a “party store.” In others it’s called a “corner store.” And elsewhere it’s a “grocery”. In New York City, the term for a small, local retailer that sells everything from beer to diapers ...
A brief History of Time Travel (in Movies) - Atlantic Online
24 May 2012, 12:59 pm
If ever a movie earned its time-travel plotline, it's Men in Black 3, which attempts to revive a movie franchise largely forgotten by audiences after its disappointing second entry. Men in Black 3 sees Will Smith's Agent J going back to the 1960s to save ...
Microsoft's So.cl: A brief Tour - PC World
21 May 2012, 11:01 am
Microsoft's social networking experiment, So.cl, a site designed around sharing Web content pulled from Bing searches, is now available for all users. Launched in December and aimed at students, So.cl is not meant to compete with popular social networks ...