It didn’t seem like too long ago that conservatives in the United States mocked the activism of liberal-minded Hollywood activists and the futility of their pursuits in far-off countries.
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Wall Street’s young guns
Wall Street’s young guns Blackstone has a rep for growing young talent. Steve Schwarzman’s strategy: managing overachievers How Blackstone grooms talent Plenty of young guns work away at the big banks, but the Blackstone Group gives autonomy and power to its rising stars to such a degree that it has garnered a reputation as one […]
Entrepeneur says he strikes oil with our garbage
Like the alchemists who once tried to turn lead into gold, a green entrepreneur says he has found a cost-effective method for turning plastic trash into oil.
Lifetime pulls balloon boy’s ‘Wife Swap’ episode from schedule
It’s just one thing after another for Richard and Mayumi Heene. They’ve caused such an uproar after last week’s alleged balloon boy hoax that Lifetime won’t air a re-run of their “Wife Swap” episode
‘Balloon boy’ dad to media: Put questions in box
The man whose giant Mylar balloon ascended into the sky this week, amid fears that his 6-year-old was aboard, emerged from his house Saturday and offered a cardboard box for the media to submit questions. “I got people e-mailing me, calling me; they’ve got a lot of questions, and I don’t know how to quite frankly answer any of them other than I’ve got a box,” Richard Heene said about 10 a.m.