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By David Knowles - AOL NewsYou go to press with the book you have. Coming in at just over 800 pages, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's new book, "Known and Unknown," was an ambitious undertaking. Given the harsh early reviews that have come in so far, however, one wonders if all that effort might have been better spent on a golf course. Surge Desk surveys the critical response to the book so far. Writing at The New York Times, veteran reviewer Michiko Kakutani lays into Rumsfeld's tome with marked vigor: The tedious, self-serving volume is filled with efforts to blame others -- most notably the C.I.A., ...
Outraged Traveler Builds Calculator to Beat Airline Baggage Fees
By Monica Garske - AOL News
(Dec. 5) -- If you're a budget-conscious traveler planning to fly home for the holidays, chances are you're dreading those pesky airline baggage fees. Luckily, one man has created a tool to beat the baggage blues, and with his help, a flight with fewer fees is practically in the bag. A little over a year ago, frequent flier Luke Dudley launched LuggageLimits.com, a website for frustrated travelers, featuring a handy-dandy, flight-specific calculator that figures out how much money different airlines charge for baggage fees. By typing in the airline, the departure airport and the arrival ...
Leaking of Secret U.S. Cables Sparks Diplomacy Crisis
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK -- A large batch of secret American diplomatic cables over the past three years offers an unusual look at back-channel discussions by embassies around the world, unflattering views of world leaders and stark evaluations of nuclear and terrorist threats, The New York Times reported Sunday. The disclosures in the Times and four other major world news organizations could fuel a worldwide diplomacy crisis with the United States at its center. "It is nothing short of a political meltdown for U.S. foreign policy," said Der Spiegel, the German publication that, like The Times, obtained the ...
WikiLeaks 3: New Docs May 'Wreak Havoc,' Pentagon Warns Congress
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 24) -- Will it be any worse this time? On Tuesday, officials at the Pentagon briefed members of Congress on the imminent release of a new trove of classified U.S. government documents set to be made public by WikiLeaks, the European-based watchdog group. The potentially dangerous intelligence information could be made public through The New York Times, Der Spiegel (Germany), Al-Jazeera and The Guardian (U.K.) as soon as Friday. The number of documents that Julian Assange's group plans to expose to public view is said to dwarf the 400,000 pages released in October that dealt with the ...
'I Just Tweet, That's Just the Way I Roll' and Other Highlights of the NYT's Palin Profile
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News
(Nov. 17) -- First encounters with the Republican elite, Twitter and the non-existent hierarchy of Palin's inner circle are just a few topics covered in Robert Draper's new Mama Grizzly profile -- "The Palin Network" -- published Wednesday on The New York Times website and available this weekend in print from The New York Times Magazine. Rather than serve up the usual healthy dose of Sarah Palin tabloid gold (see Willow's homophobic Facebook slurs, Bristol advancing on "Dancing With The Stars" and the 67-year-old Wisconsin man who shot his television after Bristol's performance for today's ...
Jon Stewart Is 'Baby Jesus' to His Fans, Says NY Times Media Critic
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Is he bigger than Jesus? Or just the same size? In the wake of Jon Stewart's wildly successful "Rally to Restore Sanity," some media watchers are wondering whether the comedian and his fans may be taking themselves a tad too seriously of late. Take David Carr, television critic for The New York Times, who, in his review of the Comedy Central host's Washington, D.C., rally, took Stewart to task for taking the media to task. "It was a beautiful day on the Mall," Carr wrote, "and who doesn't like kicking the press around, but speaking of ants, media bias and hyperbole seem like ...
Clever Cafeteria Layout Changes Can Transform Children's Nutrition
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 26) -- Wrist-slaps, restricted options and "Big Brother"-esque monitoring systems aren't the only way to get kids eating healthier meals at school -- nor will the heavy-handed approaches prove to be the most effective alternative in the quest to push whole grains and salads over sodas and french fries. Instead, Cornell researchers, writing in this month's Atlantic, report that tiny tweaks to cafeteria layouts can make remarkable differences in what kids opt to eat. You can see a visual mock-up of their plan at The New York Times. Current efforts to revamp school nutrition often ...
WikiLeaks Iraq: The 4 Most Shocking Revelations So Far
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 22) -- WikiLeaks today released nearly 400,000 classified U.S. military documents from the war in Iraq, the largest such leak in American history. The documents were simultaneously sent to The New York Times, The Guardian newspaper in Britain, the Arabic TV network Al Jazeera and Germany's Der Spiegel. The news organizations immediately began scouring the documents for potentially damning information. The Pentagon decried the release. "We deplore WikiLeaks for inducing individuals to break the law, leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret information with the ...
'The Social Network': Facebook, Zuckerberg, and the Elites
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK -- By the time I got around to going to "The Social Network," four days after its $25-million nationwide opening, I'd read half a dozen blockbuster reviews and columns dissecting the film and its portrayal of Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It was impossible to go to the movie with a fresh eye and an open mind. What if I didn't like it? Well, I did. It's terrific. So let me dispatch quickly with all the issues surrounding the film that the critics (who adore the movie) and the social pundits have probed, held up for inspection, and looked at from all sides now. David ...
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