The West and Karzai on Different Pages

Hamid Karzai and his foreign backers appear headed in opposite directions.

David Haskell Discusses Vertical Wine Bistro Revamp

Renowned wine professional David Haskell (BIN 8945) was about to open a new wine bar on 3rd Street. He had the backers and the location, but after meeting with Vertical Wine Bistro owner Gale Anne Hurd, he decided L.A. could wait, opting to revamp the second-story wine bar & restaurant . Haskell has been in Old Town Pasadena for the past two months conducting service training and updating Vertical’s wine program. “I’m viewing this as me teaming up with Gale,” says Haskell. “It’s us having

What’s So Threatening About Sotomayor’s Real Life to Her Right-Wing Critics?

By Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com. Posted June 12, 2009.For over 120 years, the idea that a judge’s background would influence how they approached cases was conventional wisdom. Why isn’t it now?Sonia Sotomayor’s critics and backers have spent recent weeks parsing one line of a speech she gave in 2001 during a conference at Berkeley on Latino representation on the judiciary. “I would hope,” she said, “that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach