Posts Tagged ‘Shakespeare’

The Case for Karzai as Most Fascinating Person of 2009

In Afghanistan, fame, History, MJ, Music, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, War on 9 December 2009 tagged #Afghanelection, 2009, ABC, Adam Lambert, Afghan election, Afghanistan, Alahazrat Amanullah Khan Ghazi, Article 132, Barack Hussein Obama, Barbara Walters, between Scylla and Charybdis, Charybdis, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, George W. Bush, Ghazi Amanullah Khan Medal for service to Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Kate Gosselin, King Lear, King of Pop, Lady GaGa, Michael Jackson, MJ, MJJ, Sarah Palin, Scylla, Shakespeare, taliban, Troop Surge with no comments

Barbara Walters’ most fascinating people of 2009 list this year is made up of the likes of Lady GaGa, Adam Lambert, Sarah Palin, and the children of the late great Michael Jackson. Walters will apparently reveal the most fascinating person of the year when the special airs on December 09 on ABC. Though interesting and [...]

Video : Hamid Karzai on Farid Zakaria GPS, ‘I’m Known for Consensus’

In Afghanistan, citizenship, Crime, News, Opinion, pakistan, Politics, TV, War on 26 October 2009 tagged Admiral Mullen, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CNN, Department of State, Development, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, ECC, Election, Election Fraud, Electoral Complaints Commission, Fareed Zakaria, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Gordon Brown, GPS, Hamid Karzai, IEC, Independent Election Commission, Insurgency, insurgent, John Kerry, Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry, Maulavi Mustafa Barakzai, Minister of Foreign Affairs, NATO, New York Times, pakistan, Pashtun, Presidential Election, rahm emanuel, Reconstruction, Richard Holbrooke, run-off, runoff, runoff election, September 11, Shakespeare, Special Envoy, suicide bomb, taliban, Thomas Friedman, Turkey, UN, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, UNSC, Video, Vote Fraud, Voter Fraud, war on terror, Washington, Waziristan, World Bank, Zakaria GPS with 1 comment

Hamid Karzai says that all parties involved have had made mistakes over the past 8 years and speaks well about wanting to make the best decisions for a nation in the situation that Afghanistan is in, which are all fairly by the book positions for an unpopular President facing charges of illegitimacy at home and [...]

Video : Jude Law Goes from ‘To Sleep Perchance to Dream’ to ‘Bluffin’ With my Muffin’

In Art, comedy, fame, Music, TV on 30 September 2009 tagged Donmar Warehouse, Hamlet, Jimmy Fallon, Jude Law, Lady GaGa, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Michael Grandage, NBC, New York, New York City, poetry, Poker Face, Shakespeare, Video, Vulture with 1 comment

Jude Law is currently starring in a production of Hamlet as the tortured Prince himself, but was kind enough to take the time to do a dramatic Shakespearian reading of one of the worst songs ever written, Lady GaGa’s Poker Face. Of course, we bet that GaGa is loving the fact that a Shakespearian actor [...]

Video : Dr. Ashraf Ghani ’80% of What’s Happening in Afghanistan is Due to Bad Governance’

In Afghanistan, Blog, citizenship, Crime, Internet, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, War on 12 August 2009 tagged Afghan election, Afghan Elections, Afghanistan, Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Obama, Brookings, CNN, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, Election, Fareed Zakaria, Finance Minister, General James Jones, GPS, Hamid Karzai, Hillary Clinton, Insurgency, Kabul, King Lear, New Yorker, Richard Holbrooke, Secretary of State, Shakespeare, taliban, Video, Youtube with 3 comments

While speaking to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Afghan Presidential candidate, Dr. Ashraf Ghani has drawn an interesting allusion between the medieval kings of Shakespeare and current Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Dr. Ghani claims that Karzai has created a court of fools falling over each other to do whatever it takes to earn the ‘King’s’ trust and [...]