Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is no stranger to hob-nobbing with the British aristocracy, but she is about to take a leap back in time to the world of Downton Abbey as the hit British drama enters its fourth season.
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Zayn Malik Attacked by a Photographer
People have been outraged over a tabloid photographer verbally attacking One Direction’s Zayn Malik by calling him an ethnic slur (“piker boy”) when One Direction drove away in cars after the group arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on November 6, 2012. Apparently, the paparazzo was angry because 19-year-old Malik didn’t stop to pose for […]
Unpaid Adult Internships on Rise, Posing Legal Questions
When you hear the word intern, you probably don’t think of people like Kristina Shands. For starters, she’s 38
Foroohar: Can Localization Help the Economy?
Tis the season to be selfish. Right after the global financial crisis exploded in 2008, many economists fretted that countries looking to hold on to their share of a shrinking pie would become more self-interested and protectionist, plunging the planet into an even sharper downturn, just as happened in the 1930s after the Great Depression
Facebook to the Rescue! How Social Media is Changing Disaster Response
Alycia Williamson-Smith and her family didn’t have anywhere else to turn. It had been days since a devastating tornado ravaged Joplin, Mo., home to her second cousin James Williamson
Secrets of the Counting House-Regal Riches
LIECHTENSTEIN They reign over a mere sliver of a state, but their fortune is decidedly big league. The Liechtenstein familys wealth, which predates their purchase of the principality that bears their name, was once concentrated in vast land holdings in the Holy Roman Empire.
UPS’ Road to Recovery
“It looks like this recession is finally over,” declared Scott Davis, CEO of UPS, earlier this month while announcing 2009 earnings that were better than expected for the world’s largest package carrier.
How to Build a Job Engine
Katherine Knapp Carney can barely contain her enthusiasm about her new job.
Sustainable Forests: Bolivia’s Pioneer Indigenous Plan
Deep in the Chiquitana tropical dry forest in southeast Bolivia, Noine Picanerai stands on a dirt road that cuts through lush woods. The 50,000-acre plot looks like a protected reserve
Romney’s Cruel Canine Vacation
The reporter intended the anecdote that opened part four of the Boston Globe’s profile of Mitt Romney to illustrate, as the story said, “emotion-free crisis management”: Father deals with minor — but gross — incident during a 1983 family vacation, and saves the day. But the details of the event are more than unseemly — they may, in fact, be illegal.