As she headed to Mali a week ago, Anita Datar was in high spirits. She told her friends on Facebook that she had not visited West Africa since leaving Senegal in 1999. Back then, she was a Peace Corps volunteer. Now she was a 41-year-old global health policy expert for an international development firm.
“Love that I’m in Mali!” she later said in an e-mail to a friend, Amy Kay, in the District. Read More...
Carlo Ponti, an Italian-born film producer who bankrolled more than 150 movies, including “La Strada” and “Doctor Zhivago,” and who was perhaps the most envied man in the world as the husband and mentor of actress Sophia Loren, died of a lung ailment Jan. 9 at a hospital in Geneva.
He was reported to be 94, though some biographical sources indicate that he was 96.
The bald, roly-poly Ponti met Loren about 1950, when she was a 15-year-old beauty contest finalist. Read More...
NEW RIVER MEDIA INTERVIEW WITH: MILTON FRIEDMAN
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Chicago
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution QUESTION: Do Americans know enough about social statistics? MILTON FRIEDMAN: Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics. The people who are interpreting America to them, the people whom they count on for advice and for instruction ought to know a great deal about social statistics. Read More...
