Daily News: “AUTOCRAT!” The word was first used to describe Napoleon more than 200 years ago, and my how it’s grown! But there is a pun here: President Obama is setting policy for American auto-makers that are benefiting from government bailout money. It’s actually pretty nice, except that the overall tone of the Read More
Several days after Lynn Tilton learned that she had lost out on a multibillion-dollar defense contract, she woke up in the midst of an epiphany.
“I’m going to stand up to the U.S. government,” she remembered thinking, “and stand up to the U.S. Army and call foul.”
Ms. Tilton, a 46-year-old vision of cleavage and Read More
Earlier this summer, I read Bill Clinton’s startling insight on the assasination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 2005, passed along by the great columnist MJ Rosenberg:
In 1997, President Bill Clinton told me that he believed that Yigal Amir was that rare assassin whose act of murder succeeded in achieving Read MoreOur tale this week of university real estate woe left out a lot of worthwhile research from the City Project paper on which we reported. One bit of that is how the Chrysler Building has been standing there, all 1,048 tall of it, for 76 years without it contributing any property tax to Read More
At 70, developer Larry Silverstein watched his most important property, the iconic and world-famous World Trade Center—which he’d bought despite any amount of industry odds-making only weeks before—dissolve into cinders.
“My life was spared,” he said. “The lives of my children were spared. The lives of most of our employees were spared; we lost four. Read More
Victoria’s Secret’s “Very Sexy” bra collection is flying off the shelves. Unfortunately, not everybody is paying for the push-up, padded, embroidered and bejeweled bodices. And by the way, “Very Sexy” is a registered trademark; it’s not simply a description of the garments given to police after a thief visited the store on Nov. 19 and Read More
Second Thoughts On Term Limits
With the Mayoral election over and a mad race underway for Speaker of the City Council, word comes that many Council members would like to see a change made in the city’s term-limits law. That change would extend Council members’ terms from two to three.
The proposal has Read More
Victoria’s Secret’s “Very Sexy” bra collection is flying off the shelves. Unfortunately, not everybody is paying for the push-up, padded, embroidered and bejeweled bodices. And by the way, “Very Sexy” is a registered trademark; it’s not simply a description of the garments given to police after a thief visited the store on Nov. 19 and Read More
What has happened to the great American auto industry? Are General Motors, Ford and Chrysler headed for oblivion? And, more immediately, is there any way for General Motors to stop its dizzying free fall? Last week, the world’s largest automaker announced that it expects to post a devastating loss of almost $1 billion for the Read More
What has happened to the great American auto industry? Are General Motors, Ford and Chrysler headed for oblivion? And, more immediately, is there any way for General Motors to stop its dizzying free fall? Last week, the world’s largest automaker announced that it expects to post a devastating loss of almost $1 billion for the Read More
