Obama will put the U.S. on a new course toward climate change with a speech to the U.N. today. But with China and Europe already skeptical, is it too little too late?
After eight months away from golf due to injury, Tiger Woods played in his first tournament yesterday and brought the course to its knees once again. How will his return impact the sport competitively and financially? And how cute is his new baby?
It turns out that in between commercials of the Super Bowl, they play some kind of a football championship. At least that's the way many viewers-and advertisers-see the NFL's biggest night. And at $3 million for a 30-second spot this year-the highest amount ever paid-it's little wonder the Bud Bowl has often had a more exciting finish than the actual game. The Daily Beast rewinds the videotape to find the biggest commercial successes (and failures) of the past 43 years.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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