Imagine Lorne Michaels wants to produce a comedy-laced drama. He has a virtually unlimited budget but instead of his cast of not ready for prime time players, he has all of Hollywood available at his fingertips. He hires an A-list director, picks as his target a lame duck president with but a few months left […]
Platform
The Dobbs Ferry Democratic Committee Statement of Principles This Statement of Principles of the Dobbs Ferry Democratic Committee offers a vision of Dobbs Ferry as a welcoming, inclusive, and responsible community in which people care about each other and act with strength and effectiveness for the good of the whole community. […]
Singapore’s First Olympic Medal In 48 Years
Singapore’s Olympic medal drought is finally over. The country’s women’s table tennis team’s narrow victory of 3-2 over their South Korean counterparts at Friday’s semi-finals garauntees her first Olympic medal in almost half a century. Weightlifter Tan Howe Liang gave the nation its only Olympic medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics – a Silver. Wth […]
Making the most of your Time
Making the most of your Time Have you ever wondered how other people seem to get so much more done in a day than you do? Do you feel like you are working longer hours, yet never seem to complete a fraction of the items on your "To Do" list? When was the last time […]
Hillary, Your Next Mission If You Choose To Accept It…
After dropping out of the Democratic race as Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has clinched the Democratic nomination, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York has another task. This one is quite a difficult task for Clinton to pull off. Imagine this was an episode of “Mission Impossible.” Anybody who is familiar with the series and […]
Citizen Desktop Astronomy, Courtesy of Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation and some of the United States’ best observatories, universities, and planetariums have gotten together to put the cosmos at one’s fingertips with a free program called the WorldWide Telescope. Doug Roberts, director of the Adler Space Visualization Laboratory, says that the new free software will allow "citizen scientists to participate in research. [Let’s […]