Courtship

Clinton-Obama Detente: From Top Rival To Top Aide — The thaw in the resentful relationship between the most powerful woman in the Democratic Party and her younger male rival began at the party's convention this summer, when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton gave such a passionate speech supporting Senator Barack Obama that his top aides leapt out of their chairs backstage to give her a standing ovation as she swept past. Mr. Obama, who was in the first steps of what would become a strategic courtship, called afterward to thank her. By then, close aides to Mrs. Clinton said, she had come to respect the campaign Mr. Obama had... [Tags: barack obama, chairs, courtship, democratic party, detente]

Joe The Plumber Secures Book Deal — One of the hilarious -- and sad! -- parts of Samuel "Joe The Plumber" Wurzelbacher's recent interview with CNN's Rick Sanchez was that moment where an exasperated J.T. Plumber whined at Sanchez, "Well, ask good questions then! Why don't you ask what I'm going to do now?" Awww! See, Joe The Plumber wasn't interested in being asked to account for whatever pseudo-intellectual swill was worming its way through his brain when he went out on the stump, with all of his opinions. No, no! Joe The Plumber just wanted to use the forum as a way of plugging all of... [Tags: brain, bristol, cnn, compendium, courtship]

MSFT: For Real, We’re Not Buying Yahoo . . . Except Maybe Search — The world has changed a lot since January 31, 2008. In case you’ve just tuned in, here’s a quick recap of the last nine and a half months: Microsoft makes an unsolicited bid for Yahoo. Yahoo stocks make a serious jump. Yahoo really thought it over, but decided to go with a search ad deal with Google instead. Google dropped Yahoo. Yahoo stocks take a serious dive. Yahoo dropped CEO Jerry Yang. Yep, that’s it in a nutshell. Despite Yahoo’s initial rejection and later renewed-then-foundered courtship with Microsoft, rumors have persisted that Microsoft is still interested in purchasing all or... [Tags: acquisition discussions, andy beal, ceo steve ballmer, courtship, google]

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Talks To Letterman About Her Three-Month Courtship: "It's Not So Comfortable To Be Dating When You're President Of France" (VIDEO) — On Tuesday night's "Late Show," David Letterman flirted with former model and current First Lady of France Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. After some chit-chat about her nationality (she gave up her Italian citizenship and is now French--to which Letterman responded "If I was Italy, I would try to get you back.") Naturally, the conversation turned to her whirlwind romance with French president Nicholas Sarkozy last year (the couple met on November 13th, 2007 at a dinner party--"We met...and we were both single..." she says--and married on February 2nd, 2008). Letterman pointed out "pretty quickly after you met, you got married," to which... [Tags: carla bruni, chit chat, courtship, david letterman, dinner party]

"Oops, Did I Write That?": Urkel Wrote a Movie — Jaleel White--who should definitely not be indelibly tied to his role as a famously nerdy sitcom character, because he's an artist outside of that--has written a screenplay, and it's being made into a movie! So long, Starbucks: [Joel] Zwick is attached to direct the romantic comedy "Did You Get My Text," written by White, best known for playing Steve Urkel on the 1990s sitcom "Family Matters." In "Text," a young man starts a relationship with a girl on his friend's phone, turning their courtship into a comedy of technological errors. Zwick is repped by the Irv Schechter Co. Cyrano... [Tags: close ups, courtship, cyrano de bergerac, family matters, glowing text]

Bebo Reaches to Developers –Enterprise Companies Follow Suit — Last night, I was invited to AOL’s offices in Mountain View to learn of Bebo’s Dev Nite, a public courtship to startups and developers who make web applications on social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Hi5 (Examples: Vampires, Scrabulous, Superwall). For anyone that didn’t get the association (it slipped my mind for a sec) that Bebo was acquired by AOL, they keep the branding very loosely separated –likely on purpose. Bebo Reaches for Application Developers Bebo’s community segment focuses on user sharing and media, and is somewhat in between the experiences of the wild ’self expression’ MySpace and more refined... [Tags: aniv, aol, application developers, bebo, communication experience]

Carmakers' slowdown takes the shine off auto shows — GM scraps model debuts at next week's Los Angeles Auto Show as the industry cuts expenses. Facing their worst sales in decades, carmakers are cutting spending on auto shows, the industry's traditional customer-courtship event.... [Tags: courtship, decades, gm, los angeles auto show, scraps]

The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search deal — The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo’s never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering class–bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtship–and the consensus is right. The time to do a Microsoft-Yahoo deal is now and it’s time to put aside the bad boardroom blood and hook up on search. For those keeping [...]... [Tags: boardroom, chattering class, consensus, courtship, microsoft]

Grey's Anatomy: Life During Wartime — Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free(S05E06) "I am so gay." - Hahn As much as I've been annoyed with how the Hahn/Callie courtship has gone thus far, I have to say - I think they won me over here. To see Hahn cry and blubber about how she's finally discovered herself, I couldn't help but feel bad for her. Granted she flipped the bitch-switch back on at the hospital, but you can't really blame her for that. She's gay. Callie's bi. And Major Owen Hunt likes to stab live pigs.Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: Life During Wartime Permalink | Email this | | Comments... [Tags: anatomy, bitch, blubber, callie, courtship]

Netflix, TiVo team up after 4-year courtship — Home entertainment trendsetters Netflix Inc. and TiVo Inc. are finally joining forces to deliver more movies and old TV episodes ...... [Tags: courtship, home entertainment, netflix inc, old tv, tivo]

Netflix, TiVo team up after 4-year courtship (AP) — AP - Home entertainment trendsetters Netflix Inc. and TiVo Inc. are finally joining forces to deliver more movies and old TV episodes to their mutual subscribers, consummating a relationship that was supposed to come together four years ago.... [Tags: courtship, home entertainment, netflix inc, old tv, relationship]

Christopher Buckley Reaffirms Obama-Love On The Daily Show — Last night former National Review back-page columnist Christopher Buckley was on The Daily Show to promote his new book, Supreme Courtship, and talk about how he became the former National Review back-page columnist (i.e. he endorsed Barack Obama on The Daily Beast, people on the right went mental, NR subscribers called to complain, Buckley offered his resignation 'sincerely', and it was sincerely accepted by NR editor Rich Lowry. And thusly the son of the magazine's founder was, just like that, evicted from the magazine of his father's legacy. Drama!). Did he have any regrets? Did he do it just to... [Tags: applause, audience, barack obama, beast, christopher buckley]

Buckley's Supreme Courtship — Christopher Buckley, the novelist, political satirist and son of the conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., is about to launch a book tour for his new novel, Supreme Courtship (Twelve, September 3, 2008). The storyline starts with the President ticked...... [Tags: christopher buckley, conservative icon, courtship, new novel, novelist]

Rough-hewn genius of Ted Hughes laid bare in unfinished verses — Ted Hughes’s courtship of Sylvia Plath and the deterioration of their relationship into “screams and death” are explored in a pair of his unpublished drafts for poems printed for the first time in The Times today.... [Tags: courtship, deterioration, genius, poems, relationship]

Male Songbirds Are High on Love — Singing to females lights up reward centers in male zebra finches' brains, a new study shows. The effect possibly "addicts" the birds to courtship.... [Tags: birds, brains, courtship, females, finches]

Eliot Schrefer: A Governor is a Governor Isn't a Governor: Palin's 2006 Campaign From the Ground — Truth: Palin won the race to become Governor of Alaska. Truth: The number of registered voters in Alaska is smaller than the population of Staten Island. Palin won the election through speeches given in fields and door-to-door canvassing. Without a doubt, she did both effectively. But it was still what would look, anywhere else in the country, like a mayoral race. When we factor that in, the distance from Mayor of Wassila to vice-presidential candidate is even more embarrassingly narrow. [I was in Anchorage during the 2006 election. I can't deny my bias, here: I was sleeping on Tony Knowles's... [Tags: air mattress, courtship, daunting task, demeanor, democratic rival]

Web In Real Life — People will buy a $1,200 HDTV but will not buy a $.99 song. People will line up around the block to droll over a marginally superior cell phone, but will not bat an eye when a new VOIP protocol hits the scene. Real human beings will always buy tangibles over data. Why is the Build-A-Bear Workshop so popular? Because Timmy O’Toule and Sarah Johnson want to walk home with a cuddly new friend not a laser-etched DVD. We’re extraordinarily proficient at rolling out applications that live out their brief lives in our computers, but we are so bad at... [Tags: brief lives, communication tools, courtship, gap, hardware manufacturers]

@ Mixx: Google And Publicis: No Frenemies Here — While Google may be viewed with a great degree of ambivalence by most major ad agencies, Publicis Group has been unequivocal in its embrace of the search giant. So to explain how this strange relationship has been working, Tim Armstrong, president of Advertising and Commerce, NA/VP of Google, took the stage at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Mixx conference with David Kenny, managing partner of Publicis' digital hub VivaKi. The two discussed their courtship and goals, as well as some hints about what they're collaborating on. -- Where it began: Armstrong ran into Kenny, who came over as CEO of Digitas... [Tags: ambivalence, courtship, digital hub, digital revolution, digital strategy]

7 Ways To Inject Romance Into Your Relationship — Written on 9/21/2008 by Monika Mundell. Monika Mundell is a passionate freelance writer and pro-blogger. Her blog Freelance Writing helps new freelance writers to get started in this exciting industry. If you like to work with Monika, feel free to visit her Portfolio site.Photo Credit: linh.ngânLove is a never ending game of courtship, romance, respect and friendship. In most love relationships, there comes a time when the romance fades away. While the love grows stronger with each year we spend with our beloved partner, romance often dies.Perhaps it is the drudgery of everyday life that kills the romantic aspects of... [Tags: aspects of love, beloved partner, courtship, drudgery, fact that most people]

New and Exciting in PLoS this week — Now that PLoS ONE is publishing daily (OK, not really, only on work-days, i.e., 5 times a week), I have been pointing to my picks every day. Let's look at what has been published there last night and tonight as well as what's new in other PLoS journals. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. Courtship Initiation Is Stimulated by Acoustic Signals in Drosophila melanogaster: Finding a mating partner is a critical task for many organisms. It is in the interest of males to employ multiple... [Tags: acoustic signals, courtship, critical task, cue, females]