Via Businessweek One of the longest and most bitter labor disputes in Atlantic City, N.J. is over. Privately held Resorts Casino Hotel has signed a contract with the main casino workers’ union, ending a more than two-year dispute that included picketing on the Boardwalk and a pressure campaign by Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union [...]
Via Reuters A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on Friday to Toyota Motor Corp’s (7203.T) $1.1 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by consumers who lost value on their cars due to sudden, unintended acceleration. U.S. District Judge James Selna in Santa Ana, California, scheduled a hearing in June for final approval of the [...]
Things got downright violent in Vancouver last night — when angry fans RIOTED IN THE STREETS after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins in a 4-0 asskicking. Cars were flipped and burned, windows smashed and stores were looted by drunk/angry hockey fans as police armed with pepper spray, tear gas and flash-bang grenades rushed to break it up. Local [...]
An announcement on jihadi message board Ansar al-Mujahideen today states that Osama bin Laden’s right hand man, Egyptian surgeon Ayman al-Zawahiri is now in charge of Al Qaeda. As the old man celebrates his promotion, here a few facts about “The Doctor”: The State Department has a $25 million bounty on his head. Where you at, Gary Faulkner? [...]
According to the New York Times‘ James Risen, Bush White House officials asked the CIA to gather dirt on and discredit left-wing academic Juan Cole because they didn’t like the things he wrote on his blog. This is interesting because, if true, it would be a) illegal, and b) nuts. Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency [...]
Rep. Anthony Weiner is running out of allies. Even his stripper penpal is calling for his resignation. Ginger Lee, a former porn actress who currently works as a “feature dancer” in nightclubs, said today that Weiner tried several times to engage her in sexual communication but that she never took the bait. Lee held a [...]
On May 24, 2011, The American Civil Liberties Union, PEN American Center, and The Film Society of Lincoln Center hosted a presentation of “Reckoning With Torture: Memos and Testimonies From the ‘War on Terror’” at The Walter Reade Theater. The performance featured readings from formerly secret government documents, videos and original art that highlight the [...]
Julian Schnabel must have known that screening a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the United Nations General Assembly would be scene-stealing. To set the town talking, the event would unite all the trappings — provocative subject matter, prestigious venue, Hollywood glamour. In fact, the March 14 screening of Miral in New York drew a crowd [...]