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Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.
Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.

The Talk of the Town

Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.
Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . .
Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .

 

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A Look at Cooked Books - Staging Broadway spectacles like 'Ragtime' made Livent one of the worlds most successful theater companies. But telling tall tales in its accounting books may send its founders up the river. [CNN and Fortune]
Meta Description: [ Staging Broadway spectacles like "Ragtime" made Livent one of the worlds most successful theater companies. But telling tall tales in its accounting books may send its founders up the river. ]

404 Former Livent Execs Face Indictments - The founders of theatre giant Livent Inc., Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, were indicted in U.S. federal court on Wednesday for allegedly defrauding investors and taking kickbacks. Includes text of Garth Dabrinsky's statement. [CBC News]

Livent Does Phantom Biz - Livent Inc., an entertainment company backed in part by entertainment mogul Michael Ovitz, disclosed Monday that its new management has uncovered 'serious' accounting irregularities that could represent 'millions of dollars' of fake revenue. [CNNfn]
Meta Description: [ Livent Inc., an entertainment company backed in part by entertainment mogul Michael Ovitz, disclosed Monday that its new management has uncovered "serious" accounting irregularities that could represent "millions of dollars" of fake revenue. ]

Livent Files for Chapter 11, Sues Co-founders - Troubled Broadway show producer Livent Inc. Wednesday filed for bankruptcy protection, restated its earnings for the last nine quarters, fired co-founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb and filed a C$225 million lawsuit against them. [CNNfn]
Meta Description: [ Troubled Broadway show producer Livent Inc. Wednesday filed for bankruptcy protection, restated its earnings for the last nine quarters, fired co-founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb and filed a C$225 million lawsuit against them. ]

US Officials Indict Former Livent Execs - The former chairman and president of Toronto-based Livent Inc., the producer of the Broadway show 'Phantom of the Opera,' were indicted Wednesday on charges they bilked about US$4.6 million and 'cooked the books' at the theatrical company to cover massive losses. [CNN/Money]
Meta Description: [ The former chairman and president of Toronto-based Livent Inc., the producer of the Broadway show "Phantom of the Opera," were indicted Wednesday on charges they bilked about US$4.6 million and "cooked the books" at the theatrical company to cover massive losses. ]