Posts Tagged ‘Stone’

7 Highlights from Biden’s Rolling Stone Interview

Douglas Brinkley’s Rolling Stone interview with Vice President Joe Biden is a must-read but, if you don’t have the time, The Week has seven highlights. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post

Virginia No Longer a Stepping Stone to the White House

“As the race for governor heats up in Virginia, Beltway insiders again will seek to turn it into a warm-up for a bid for the White House. But that’s almost certainly not going to happen,” writes Ryan Teague Beckwith. Tweet This Post

McChrystal takes blame for Rolling Stone article

WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal is speaking out for the first time since he was forced to resign. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Omanis hope first local vote is stepping stone towards change

MUSCAT (Reuters) – Hoping for jobs and democratic change, voters in Oman cast ballots in their first municipal election on Saturday, a sign of modest reform in response to protests inspired by the Arab Spring. The small Gulf oil producer, ruled since 1970 by Sultan Qaboos, sits opposite Iran on the Strait of Hormuz, the [...]

Michael Phelps Using Rosetta Stone To Brush Up On His English

LONDON—Coaches and teammates confirmed Friday that U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has spent the past month studying with Rosetta Stone software in an effort to brush up on his English-language skills, which have grown rusty after several years … Tweet This Post

STONE HARBOR, NJ—Watching the sunset has gone from romantic to interminably dull, but new couple Sam Martino and Kelly Hess are keeping quiet because each thinks the other is still lost in the moment.

STONE HARBOR, NJ—Watching the sunset has gone from romantic to interminably dull, but new couple Sam Martino and Kelly Hess are keeping quiet because each thinks the other is still lost in the moment. Tweet This Post

First Disk Of Rosetta Stone Hungarian Just Urges Listeners To Rethink This Whole Thing

ARLINGTON, VA—Software developer Rosetta Stone announced Thursday the launch of a new three-CD-ROM Hungarian language program, the first disk of which is dedicated entirely to urging users to reconsider learning Hungarian. Tweet This Post

Insight: Her legacy set in stone, India’s “Dalit queen” faces

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – By her own standards, Kumari Mayawati’s birthday celebrations were low-key this year. After driving through a red-carpeted tunnel of plaster elephant tusks in an Ambassador, India’s retro-looking national car, the chief minister of India’s largest state swept past a coterie of her party’s workers, who bowed and touched her feet. … [...]

Opinion: If Humans Evolved To Be Social Creatures, Then Why Didn’t Anyone Come To My Party? (by Ethan Stone)

It was Aristotle himself who first described humans as "social animals," and indeed his observation from 350 B.C. Tweet This Post