Amy Sullivan: Obama’s case for gay marriage shows that invoking faith isn’t just for conservatives anymore
In his recent interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts, President Obama cited the Golden Rule as found in Matthew 7:12 when describing the role his Christian faith played in leading him to support s…
Bond sales push up Allianz operating profit of $217M
Allianz Life Insurance of North America on Tuesday posted a 72 percent increase in first quarter operating profit of $217 million compared with $126 million last year.
Occupy's Plan To Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge Cancelled
Er, never mind . Occupy's plan to shut down the Golden Gate Bridge on May 1st has been cancelled. Occupy will instead focus on ferry service. Why? Well, part of it could be that the Golden Gate Bridge District just agreed to pay a reported $2 million to "380 workers represented by 14 unions who have been out of contract since July 2011 over a dispute about medical insurance costs passed on to ...
Robert Capa and Gerda Taro: love in a time of war
Capa and Taro lived, loved and died on the frontline, becoming the most famous war photographers of their time. As a new novel about them is published, we explore their real relationship It begins with a photograph. In 1934 a struggling Hungarian photographer, André Friedmann, living in exile in Paris, is commissioned to take publicity pictures for a Swiss life insurance company's advertising ...
Betty White Music Video Wins Silver Telly Award
The 33rd Annual Telly Awards recently honored The Lifeline Program with a 2012 Silver Telly Award, the highest Telly accolade, for its viral YouTube music video, “I’m Still Hot -- featuring Betty White.” Starring the Emmy winning actress rapping alongside British singer Luciana, the video spawned overwhelming national media attention and more than one million YouTube hits shortly after its ...