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...going to say "Congratulations" on your nomination to be Treasury Secretary (who knew when we were in Tokyo together in the early '90s that you'd end up with your name on U.S. currency someday?). But I'm not sure congratulations is exactly the right word, given the fiendishly parlous economic times in which we now live. I do wish you luck, though, and in this little missive I'll try to offer a bit of advice...
...Orlando’s Declaration of Love to Rosalind,” by William Shakespeare, to take one example, was. Some of the poems were about celebrities Like fans’ odes to Batman and Miley and Britney. In the field of bad poetry Randall Johnson’s name is big: He’s the proud author of “You Raped My Pig.” John Galligan, one of the event’s co-curators; Said there were two types bad enough to be read in theaters. One type, he said, toward ambitious themes...
Harvard has had a lot of Presidents, but none of them were named “Bell Johnson.” In China, “Bell Johnson,” who sports a mustache and furrowed brow in a black-and-white portrait, has been placed on flyers for Megee, a water heater company based out of the Guangdong Province. Earlier this year, retailers who sell Megee products began hailing “Johnson” as the president of Harvard University. The logo carries the University’s name in both English and Chinese...
...Salvation Army has a devoutly religious mission, rooted in its founding in 1865 by an evangelical protestant minister (and former pawn broker) named William Booth, whose early motivation was to convert poor Londoners - and eventually prostitutes, gamblers and alcoholics - to Christianity. Recognizing that his followers needed more than just religion to improve their lives - and that the way to attract the destitute was the provide services - Booth provided meals, clothing and other assistance to his early converts. He was famous for saying, "Nobody ever got saved while they had a toothache." The quasi-military name "Salvation Army" was given...
...prophecy sometimes attributed to Ali that the arrival of the Mahdi - a messiah-like figure who, Shi'ites believe, will ultimately defeat evil - will be presaged by the appearance of a messenger, a tall black man who will rule the West. Others read meaning into Obama's name. In Persian, O-ba-ma means "He's with us," and Barack Hussein can loosely be translated as "blessings of Hussein," an allusion to Ali's son, another imam revered by the Shi'ites. Obama's strenuous denials made no difference to these theorists: they simply reasoned that he must be practicing...