“Today’s ‘large’ is, well, why we’re large”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, June 3, 2012 From all the bellyaching over Mike Bloomberg’s proposed ban on large servings of sugary drinks, you’d think the New York mayor was threatening something truly onerous this time. Like canceling Nathan’s Famous July Fourth Coney Island Hot-Dog Eating Competition. Or saying…
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Four years ago, green issues were central to the 2008 campaign…. Flash forward, 2012. The economy and jobs take center stage; the environment takes a back seat. Voters care less about climate change; the planet is still warming. Columbia Business School Alumni Club presents a provocative discussion on environmental policy and politics from both sides of the aisle. …
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“Justice falls victim to flawed convictions”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 27, 2012 It’s easy to think of shady police work as a victimless crime. Really, who’s being hurt when cops bend the evidence against a bad guy — or the crime lab gets sloppy or a prosecution witness is nudged toward a lie? Is…
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“Facebook investors bought into the hype”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 19, 2012 How do you “like” that? After all the breathless frenzy over the Facebook IPO, the most-anticipated new tech stock since the last most-anticipated new tech stock hardly went anywhere. With a final-hour beat-down of instant buyer’s remorse, shares closed less than 1…
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“Don’t you love the holier-than-thou Mitt Romney—after what he did to Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum?” – Ellis Henican This week in campaign politics saw Vice-President Joe Biden getting angry at Republicans and Mitt Romney for their failure to understand the middle class : “I resent when they talk about families like mine that I…
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INTERNET WEEK New York 181 MILLION BLOGGERS, PISSING IN THE WIND Finding the Audiences that Would Love to Find You Produced by : SOBEL MEDIA Presented by: Thursday – May 17, 2012 8:00am – 10:00am So much great content, so many passionate readers, such a huge disconnect. This panel will explore fresh new strategies to help…
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“A tumultuous week for marriage”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 13, 2012 If you don’t like it, it’s “homosexual marriage.” If you do, it’s “marriage equality.” As in the battle between “right to life” and “pro-choice,” you tell me which words you use. Then I’ll tell you which side you’re on. What a difference a…
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“GOP rivalries hardly forgotten”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 6, 2012 Should we pretend to like people we don’t? They’re coming around very slowly this bitter campaign year. There on Friday were Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, locked in a room together for an hour and a half — no cameras, no aides, not a…
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“I’m not against politicizing it. Stand up and say ‘Absolutely, I ordered the thing, it went great, and that’s a good reason to vote for me.’” – Ellis Henican Marking the one year anniversary of the US Navy SEALs’ raid in Pakistan which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden – the President made…
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