Wednesday's Daily Brief

Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Arianna Huffington: Last week, we announced our picks for the top 2011 Game Changers in Green, Politics, and Media -- the innovators, mavericks, visionaries, and leaders in those fields who are changing the way we look at the world and the way we live in it. And we asked you to vote for the Ultimate Game Changer in each category. The response has been great, with hundreds of thousands of votes cast. Today we are announcing the Game Changers in three more categories: Style, Food/Travel, and Entertainment. Look over the slideshows we've put together giving you the rundown of who we picked, why we picked them, and how they are changing the game. Then vote for the Ultimate Game Changer in each category. Click here to vote for the Ultimate Game Changer in Style, here for the Ultimate Game Changer in Food/Travel, and here for the Ultimate Game Changer in Entertainment.
POLITICS
GOP In Key States Sour On Perry, Warm To Romney
POLITICS
Obama Administration: Photos Of Bin Laden's Body Must Remain Secret
MEDIA
Andy Rooney Ending Regular '60 Minutes' Appearances
SAN FRANCISCO
PHOTOS: Hundreds Protest 'Racist' UC Berkeley Bake Sale
DENVER
Deadliest Food Outbreak In A Decade
BLOG POSTS
Conrad Black: My Destruction by Murdoch
The press release announcing my resignation from Hollinger was on the wires the Monday morning after my decision. Murdoch's New York Post became the outlet for every fictional tale of my enemies and then some enthusiastically invented by the Post itself.
Christine Lagarde: Resolve and Determination: How We Get Out of This Together
I feel strongly that the global community is beginning to respond to our shared plight. Why? Three reasons: a shared sense of urgency, a shared diagnosis of the problems, and a shared sense that the steps needed in the period ahead are now coming into focus.
Jeremy Rifkin: The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Will Transform Society (Excerpt)
The "democratization of energy" has profound implications for how we orchestrate the entirety of human life in the coming century. We are entering the era of "Distributed Capitalism." The Third Industrial Revolution.
Jessica Pearce Rotondi: State of Undress: Can Nudity Still Shock Us?
The conversation around San Francisco's recent "Nude-in," held to protest a proposed law that would limit public nudity, which is currently legal in the city, raises an interesting question: When a practice arrives at the point where it has a system of etiquette, has it lost its shock value?
Will Bunch: The Tea Party, Right-Wing Media and the Dog That Didn't Bark
Did the Tea Party become, in that famous Sherlock Holmesian expression, the dog that did not bark? For the most part, yes. So what was all that barking that woke America up in the middle of the night? It was the right-wing media, and its echoes, that you heard.
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