chanel lays off 200 in paris

chanel cuts staff in paris according to the timesof london.

robert fisk and the independent weigh in on israel's christmas war in gaza

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is intolerance monopolized by left or right

is intolerance now monopolized by the left? and is the center more or less filled with apathy? the 90s, during the clinton administration was filled with media images of right wing fanatics harassing women at planned parenthood. these images have given way to lefties giving george w. bush the finger, harassment of mormons, and calling rick warren unprintable names. this editorial in the wall street journal makes a good argument for rick warren being a solid choice for speaking at barack obama’s inauguration. and points out that the political left (barney frank, etc.) could be the nail in the coffin for an obama presidency. while frank and the faction he represents may believe that obama has a mandate. the obama people are well aware that during this election, they only won the cities and made a very poor showing in the countryside.

disney pulls plug on christian themed film; walden media looks for new partner

walden media, which owns the rights to the c.s. lewis series, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, is looking for a partner for the voyage of the dawn treader, the 3rd in the series. apparently prince caspian didn’t perform as planned. although this is probably more due to disney deciding to show the film in summer as opposed to christmas like the original film which made almost $800m worldwide. despite disney’s lousey marketing campaign and poor choice of a release date, the film still managed to eek out almost $500m worldwide. it’s a good investment for any studio interested in dollar signs.

michelle obama with do rag in hawaii

barack and michelle obama are enjoying their holidays at a $3500/day resort in hawaii, the home state of the president elect. michelle obama got caught by the daily mail sporting a wrap and a fairly unfashionable do rag.

researches force subjects to view bad jon cusack film

reasearches had research subjects view a string of romantic movies released between 1995 and 2005. one of which was the bomb ‘serendipity,’ starring jon cusack. their conclusions indicate that watch romantic comedies can ruin your love life.

the bbc reported this information 1 week ago. time magazine (always on top of breaking news), just got around to reporting on this today.

deep throat dead at 95

so, the watergate leak who was assigned the name ‘deep throat’ in the best selling non-fiction book, ‘all the president’s man’ and who led to the downfall of richrd m. nixon was the associate director of the FBI during the nixon administration. w. mark felt put bob wooward and carl bernstein formerly of the washington post on the map.

dartmouth offers early retirement

you can read the whole story here. according to the union leader newspaper, ‘dartmouths’s endowment has dropped 6 percent, or $262 million. more than a third of the college’s $420 million operating budget (excluding grants) is supported by distributions from the endowment’

ex-nasdaq chairman goes down with pyramid scheme

how is the media covering this story? here’s what’s happening with the uk press: the weekend edition financial times buries the most important information of the story in the article, that bernard madoff is an ex-chairman of nasdaq. the independent makes a similar mistake and essential runs a version of the ft story including a quote about madoff taken from the financial time (which the independent references) which the financial times also includes in their article.

greek protests spread across europe

according to the german news magazine der spiegel,solidarity protests have happened in cities such as madrid and copenhagen. earlier this week the greek embassy in berlin was briefly occupied. how serious this is or not is unclear.