Wall Street suffered a one-day panic last week when a rumor floated that South Korea’s central bank was looking to dump some of its reserves of U.S. dollars. The Koreans quickly denied the rumor and order was restored, but you can’t blame Asian bankers for getting nervous. As of December 2004, Japan, China, Taiwan and […]

1994-2000: Mary Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, works for Coors Brewing as outreach to the gay and lesbian community. She helps to end a 20-year boycott of Coors by many gay bars. (Coors was boycotted for its funding of anti-gay initiatives.) As part of her work, Ms. Cheney visits gay bars, sometimes accompanied […]

Let’s be clear: freedom of speech is a right, one worth defending regardless of how distasteful that defense might become. That written, can we find the world’s smallest campus (enough room for two desks and two huge egos) and send Larry Summers and Ward Churchill there? In recent days Mr. Summers, president of Harvard, wondered […]

January is the month for presidential oratory. In January 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered both inaugural and State of the Union addresses. America was pulling itself from a decade of economic depression and was sobered by looming war on two oceans. President Roosevelt’s State of the Union address to Congress that year is remembered […]