| Holocaust Museum founder Lerman dies
Miles Lerman, who fought against the Nazis in Poland and later helped found the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has died. He was 88. Lerman's wife, Rosalie, confirmed Wednesday that he died Tuesday at his home in Philadelphia. Lerman was a member of a prosperous family whose flour mills were seized by the Nazis. Lerman escaped from a slave labor camp and fought the Nazis with other partisans for nearly two years in the forests of Poland. "Our job was to raise havoc, to raise hell with them and survive," he once told The Philadelphia Inquirer. Lerman and his wife immigrated to New York City in 1947. He worked as a grocery warehouse clerk in Brooklyn, N.Y., then had a chicken farm in Vineland, N.J. He later started a home heating oil business that grew into a major distributorship, and invested in real estate.
In S.C. primary, Clinton strategy foiled
IRMO, S.C. -- Susan Kilburn, a 53-year-old real estate office manager, voted Republican in the last six presidential elections. She voted here at a park Saturday for Barack Obama, helping him run away with the South Carolina primary and fueling his hopes against Hillary Clinton in the 22-state Super Tuesday Feb. 5. "I surprised myself," Kilburn said. "I wasn't pleased with the Republican candidates and I wasn't really pleased with the Democrats, either. "But his ads made him seem the most real. He came across as the person who has the best chance to bring people together. I didn't feel like Hillary could do that." Betsy Petersen, a 40-year-old preschool teacher, voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, but for Republicans ever since. She, too voted for Obama.
Excerpt from `Defying Dixie'
During the 1920s white Southerners' depictions of black life contested those of black writers in the Harlem Renaissance in a battle between Harlem's New Negro and white Southerners' fictive Old Negro. The Great Migration created an audience for southern white cultural production of black life as northern whites came into daily contact with southernborn blacks. By the 1920s minstrelsy, based on highly stylized images and played by white actors in blackface, was offering northern whites few clues about their new black neighbors. As minstrel shows faded (and it was a slow fade) light musicals, such as Harlem at the Apollo, starring actual black people, flourished. Both forms continued alongside the dramas and musicals that white Southerners staged.51 White Southerners' work packed Broadway theaters in the 1920s and swept up five Pulitzers.
Batista The Rumble "Ironman", Off-Air PPV New, More
According to reports from inside Madison Square Garden, last night the company ran two music videos on the screens in the building. One was video highlights of last years WrestleMania 23 (footage that included Bobby Lashley) and another was a tribute video to Ric Flair.
- As we have been reporting, WWE had a heavy presents in New York City over the weekend. Beth Phoenix and Brian Kendrick did an autograph signing yesterday morning which drew close to 350 people according to Mike Johnson. The final AXXESS event was an appearance by Ric Flair which drew 600-800 people. Advertisement: *SPOILER* The Big Show Arrives Backstage At RAW In Philly! View His NEW LOOK >> .
Is retail real estate about to crash?
The stock of Boeing—the largest commercial aviation company—has held up comparatively well through the worst crisis in commercial aviation history. There is a good reason for this. While airlines seeking post-9/11 aid have had to pay a steep price for government-backed loan guarantees, Boeing is benefiting from what amounts to a stealth government bailout. Boeing is both the world's largest commercial jet manufacturer and the second-largest U.S. defense contractor. But in the past few years the company has come to rely far more on the taxpayer-funded work. In 1999, when the company delivered 620 commercial planes, these jets accounted for two-thirds of Boeing's $58 billion in revenues. Military Aircraft and Missiles Systems, and Space and Communications—the two divisions now united as Integrated Defense Systems—accounted for the other third.
Assembly leaders propose $180M subprime relief package
New York State Assembly leaders have proposed a $180 million legislative package designed to combat the subprime lending crisis. The plan, put forth by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan), Assembly Banking Committee Chairman Darryl Towns (D-Brooklyn) and Assembly Housing Chairman Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn), includes $150 million for grants to homeowners who are in default and $30 million for organizations that provide counseling, mediation assistance and representation during the foreclosure process. The grants would be reserved for those homeowners who are actively engaged with lenders or loan servicers in developing work-out arrangements or modifying the mortgage. Lenders also would be required to participate in alleviating the debt. The bill, dubbed the "Responsible Lending Act of 2008" also would address predatory lending practices, such as negative amortization, prepayment penalties and lending without regard to prepayment ability by increasing the responsibilities lenders and brokers have toward borrowers.
Huckabee meets the rest of America
His religious sincerity informs his nearly every political conviction and flavors the populist charm that has gained him so much traction on the campaign trail. He is a social conservative, opposed to gay civil unions, abortion, gun control and stem-cell research. More startling is his avowed skepticism toward Darwin and evolution and acceptance of the seven-days-of-creation message of the Old Testament. Reporters arriving at the hotel headquarters of the Huckabee campaign in Des Moines on Thursday night, as the first Iowa results were coming in, found the usual shambles. There was no one to spin his message -- the veteran Republican consultant Ed Rollins was still nowhere to be seen -- and the most noticeable activity was the prayer circle formed by his young volunteers. No one had even got round to putting up the backdrop behind the podium where, just a few minutes later, Huckabee would be delivering his unlikely victory speech.
Republican rivals open final assault in Florida
The only black candidate among all, the only who's running against a well known former president and his first lady for 8 long years… I feel shaken by this wonderful demonstration of support and endorsement by the whitest and most respected family in the United States, the Kennedys. I'm totally convinced on how good it will be when Mr. Obama takes his office on the Inauguration Day. God bless the Kennedys, God bless Mr. Obama, God bless America, God bless Brazil, my country, and the whole wide world we all live in, as one & together… However, if any blessings are still left over, God bless me, too. .
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