- The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics
- Desperately Seeking Yeltsin :: For all our sentimental belief in the ultimate triumph of those on the "right side of history," nothing is inevitable. This second Iranian revolution is on the defensive, even in retreat. To recover, it needs mass, because every dictatorship fears the moment when it gives the order to the gunmen to shoot at the crowd. If they do (Tiananmen), the regime survives; if they don’t (Romania’s Ceausescu), the dictators die like dogs. The opposition needs a general strike and major rallies in the major cities — but this time with someone who stands up and points out the road ahead.
- Winners and losers from the NBA draft
- Jack Grover loses big to stop demolition of notorious slum house in Caswell. When I walk by there on the way home, you can smell the house from across the street. On Flickr
- 10 Important Business Lessons Learned the Hard Way
- Ticket prices at the new Yankee Stadium are so high that if a New Yorker wants to watch a Mariners/Yankees game from the best seats, it would be a lot cheaper to fly to Seattle, stay in a nice hotel, eat fancy dinners, and see two games.
- The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church says it’s time to take the Ark of the Covenant out of storage :: Stuart Munro-Hay, author of “Quest for the Ark of the Covenant: The True History of the Tablets of Moses,” concluded that the object in question is definitely not the original Holy Ark.
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Re: The Ark: I wonder why they are revealing the artifact now?
Jamie, my first flippant reaction when I saw this story was, “Someone’s poll numbers are down”. I doubt it is that though. Personally I think it is a fake.
I share your skepticism.
I walk by the house every morning with my dog – its about time something was done with it…..now if only we can get his two house that have burned on Ave E taken care of as well….