Новости за 23.08.2016

An interesting tidbit of news emerged last weekend regarding a partnership between Israel and Honduras, where “kidnapping, crime and violence…remains critically high,” according to a U.S. State Department travel warning issued this month. To fight crime, which has swelled over the last 15 years, the country’s leadership is seeking Congressional approval of an agreement with Israel to help “fortif[y] our armed forces with capabilities that we likely never would have obtained,” said Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández. Читать дальше...

For Barbra Streisand, it would seem there isn’t a lot of world left to conquer. After all, you’re a legendary star of stage and screen. You’ve won every award going, including the coveted EGOT (although it’s more like EEGGGGGGGGGGOOT, if you know what I mean; I think I got all the Grammys in there.) She’s been married for 18 years to James Brolin, a tall and ruggedly handsome man with his own money. An, by her own admission, she is mostly content to simply hang at her picture-perfect Malibu estate... Читать дальше...

A white building with wooden icicles hanging from its roof stands out on St. Louis’s Chippewa Street, which is otherwise lined with fast-food restaurants, nondescript brick houses, and small businesses. This cartoonish structure is Ted Drewes Frozen Custard, a family-owned business that has been serving concretes, sundaes, and other frozen treats for 86 years.

There are at least two ways to write a biography of an individual The New York Times called the most-published person in human history. In a little over half a century, Jacob Neusner published more than a thousand scholarly and popular books and countless essays, op-eds, and public and private letters, and was part of almost every significant American Jewish controversy since World War II. The first way to write the biography of such a person would be to write a multivolume 1,000-page tome plodding through each work... Читать дальше...

The Trump campaign has hired Ted Cruz’s former data-analysis firm, Cambridge Analytica—and in doing so, it has connected itself with a British property tycoon, Vincent Tchenguiz, and through him with the Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, a business associate of Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who resigned last week. It would be hard to find a better example of why the ownership of the companies that collect data on the American electorate matters.

Lou Pearlman’s career was fascinating. Born in 1954, he was the only child of Hy and Reenie Pearlman, both Jews, who raised Lou in Flushing, N.Y. Hy, his father, was a dry cleaner while his mother, Reenie, was a “school lunchroom aide.” They slept on a fold-out couch so their son could use their only bedroom. They lived at Mitchell Gardens Apartments, which was nice living, but not a Floridian mansion on a lake. More than 50 years later, Lou Pearlman, The Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC Svengali who made millions in the music industry... Читать дальше...