Jennifer Egan struck the right chords with 'Goon Squad'
By Mark Hinson Democrat senior writer -- In the late '90s, novelist and short-story author Jennifer Egan wanted to try her hand at writing music journalism for The New York Times Magazine.
Embracing free enterprise — M. Bakri Musa
JAN 25 — The remarkable thing about these initiatives I describe is that individually and in the aggregate, they would cost very little. The default rate for such loans is very low, as demonstrated by the experience of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. But the most important benefit of such a scheme is that it would encourage trade among ordinary Malays ...
American Airlines to lay off thousands, but impact on Miami is unknown
American Airlines wants to lay off at least 13,000 employees as part of its bankruptcy reorganization. It’s unclear how much of that burden South Florida will bear.
Cummings out of Senate race, but not politics
Local tea party activist Laureen A. Cummings is done with the U.S. Senate race as a candidate, but she's backing another tea party candidate and suggesting her future in politics and as a government watchdog is just beginning.
Tory feminists: the true blue sisterhood
Who says feminists can only be leftwing? An influential group of Conservative women MPs are increasingly vocal about the need to tackle gender equality. With radical views on parenting and work, can free-market feminism leave its mark? The woman in the photograph is smiling a fixed, red-lipsticked smile that doesn't quite reach her eyes. Snapped against a wall, she wears a black T-shirt with ...
Super Bowl Capsules: Coughlin and Belichick are same, yet very different
They come from the same coaching tree, disciples of Bill Parcells. That and a no-nonsense approach are what Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick have in common.