The 40-year-old Silsby told the court earlier she thought the children were orphans whose homes were destroyed in the earthquake. But she lacked the proper papers to remove them from the country at a time when the government was restricting adoptions to prevent child trafficking in the chaos that followed the earthquake.
The Svengali of Pop Art by Annie Cohen-Solal May 13, 2010 As the art market comes back to life, an exclusive excerpt from a new biography of Leo Castelli, the dealer who discovered Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol. VIEW OUR GALLERY. From 1958 to 1981, in order of appearance: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg,…
If you have in your acquaintance a person between the ages of 8 and 14, you’ve probably seen them reading The Lightning Thief or another book in the Percy Jackson young-adult fantasy series by Rick Riordan. That series, about an ordinary kid who discovers he’s actually half Greek god, ended after five books last year….
A 24-year-old Arab American from Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the 2010 Miss USA title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown. Rima Fakih of Dearborn, Mich., won the pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip after strutting confidently in an orange and gold…
Stone’s challenge this time around was to make his protagonist, Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), a hotshot, 20-something banker, sympathetic in an age when fresh-out-of-school Wall Street types are vilified as bottle-service-swilling douchebags. On the face of it, the casting of LaBeouf, whose grating, agitated swagger has never seemed more appropriate than in a trading room, runs counter to that goal. But his character is redeemed by the following “good-guy” factors:
Millions of Mexicans Refuse To Register Their Cell Phones A plan to register every cell phone in Mexico into a centralized government database has been declared a disaster after millions of citizens banded together and refused to hand over their personal information. In a country that sees as many as 6,000 attempted extortion calls every…
ABU DHABI (AFP) – There’s no mistaking what’s in this vending machine. The well-heeled in the Gulf can now grab “gold to go” from a hotel lobby in the United Arab Emirates, when the need for a quick ingot strikes. On Thursday, a day after its inauguration, the shiny machine attracted spectators of many different…
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/13/2010 Existential Crisis for the Euro The Last Opportunity for a Strong Currency An Analysis by Henrik Müller The euro is experiencing the deepest crisis of its short history. Governments in Europe swiftly agreed to a massive rescue package, but it won’t be enough to save the common currency. If the monetary union…
Ritchie Katko spends his days working for the Make it Right Foundation in the Lower 9th ward in New Orleans. This January, while the city was consumed by Saints fever, Ritchie, along with a group of fellow architects and thought leaders traveled to Haiti to offer their assistance. A few weeks ago, they made a…
Last week’s market swoon briefly shaved about $1 trillion dollars off of the value of U.S. equities. But it may have a much more lasting and beneficial effect on the NYSE Euronext — the exchange world’s resident tortoise. Until last Thursday, the NYSE’s gripes about the dangers of market fragmentation and opaqueness seemed like little…