Sitara Nieves appears in the following:
A New Hope for Middle East Peace?
Monday, May 18, 2009
Today, President Obama meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for the first time since either leader took office. On the agenda will likely be whether Mr. Netanyahu wi...
Hip Hop Artists Are In the (White) House
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
On the campaign trail, President Barack Obama said that no one should graduate from university without having read poetry. He also promised that he would open up the White House to a ...
For the Supreme Court, a Good Judge of Character
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
President Obama consults today with Senate leaders on his pick to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter; he hopes the nominee can be through the confirmation process before Congr...
Race, Justice, Freedom and Paul Butler
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Paul Butler was on track for the American dream. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, he was a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice specializing in p...
Saving Trillions in Health Care, One Patient at a Time
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Yesterday, the Obama administration built momentum for an ambitious plan aimed at reducing the rising cost of health care. The administration announced $2 trillion in voluntary cost r...
Manny Ramirez Ruined My Fantasy!
Friday, May 08, 2009
Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez shocked the sporting world yesterday when it was reported that he tested positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance. The result? I...
Building Confidence Via Stress Tests
Friday, May 08, 2009
The Federal Reserve yesterday released the long-awaited results of the “stress tests”. The tests found that ten of the nation's 19 largest banks need a total of about $75 billion in n...
Is the Stress-Test Good Economics or Just Good PR?
Friday, May 08, 2009
The Federal Reserve yesterday released the long-awaited results of the “stress tests”. The report gave nine of the nation's largest banks a clean bill of health, and told ten others t...
India: Voting in the World's Biggest Democracy
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Polling stations are open today in India's marathon five-phase election where millions of voters in 85 constituencies across seven states and in Delhi are expected to cast their ballo...
Pakistan Takes on the Taliban
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Yesterday, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari met with President Barack Obama and Afghani President Hamid Karzai at the White House, determined to convey his commitment to fighting...
Stress-Test Results: How Did the Big Banks Do?
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Report cards on the nation's 19 biggest banks will be released later today, but not all of the banks will be getting gold stars. While the results of the government-ordered stress tes...
Presenting David Bing, Detroit's Mayor-elect
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Just yesterday, Detroit voters elected David Bing to be their new mayor. The former basketball star, now turned auto parts businessman, will serve the final eight months of former May...
Pencils Ready: Your Personalized Financial Stress Test
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Tomorrow, government officials will reveal the results of so-called "stress tests" conducted on the nation's largest banks. The tests analyzed the banks’ finances to see how they woul...
Torture Memo Probe: Lawyers May Not Be Prosecuted
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
The Justice Department has been investigating the Bush administration lawyers who drafted the so-called torture memos that outlined brutal techniques for gathering information. Accord...
The challenge of naming a flu
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
What to name the flu that is raising alarms across the globe is becoming a complex issue. See, pork producers object to use of the name "swine flu", particularly in light of the fact ...
Computer spies hack Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter project
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
International computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter Project. The $300 billion program is the military's costliest weapons project ever. The intruders int...
Another chapter in the long civil war in Sri Lanka
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Today, Tamil separatist fighters ignored an ultimatum issued by the Sri Lankan government. Despite potentially risking the lives of tens of thousands of civilians, the Tamil rebels re...
Fine print of the torture memos reveal shocking details
Monday, April 20, 2009
The fallout from the release of the so-called torture memos that document the CIA's interrogation techniques against purported terrorists continues. Now more details of the potentiall...
Soon 714 million Indians head to the polls
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Soon the entire subcontinent of India will have a job. They must go to their nearest polling place and elect a new government. No one is making predictions on this election other than...
The battle of the Tax Day tea parties
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tax Day: The battle of the tea parties.
The original tea party, of course, was in 1773, when colonists dumped chests of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest taxation by the Briti...
