Michael Moore is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and author. He directed and produced Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko. He has also written seven books, most recently, Mike’s Election Guide 2008.
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DVF Awards Salute Four Extraordinary Women
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The fashion designer awarded $50,000 grants to women battling human trafficking, promoting education in Afghanistan, empowerment in Haiti-and to French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, who survived a harrowing, six and a half year kidnapping ordeal.
A Weekend of Extraordinary Women
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Olivia Cole writes for the Spectator and the London Evening Standard. An award-winning poet, her first collection, Restricted View, was published this fall.
The Daily Beast's Women in the World summit closed Sunday-an extraordinary three-day session in which some of the most powerful women on the planet met to discuss global challenges and propose solutions, in a stirring call to arms.
The Lives of Girls
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A Women in the World discussion about empowering girls in the developing world, featuring Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, and moderated by Katie Couric. Watch the live-stream online Saturday, March 13 at 2:45 p.m.
Survivor of the Genocide
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Freelance journalist Lauren Comiteau has covered the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and other stories from the Netherlands for Time magazine, CBS Radio, CBC, VOA, The Chicago Tribune and others since 1996. Her most recent gig was as deputy editor of Time Out Amsterdam, where she wrote the family issues column "Domestic Blitz."
Even as Radovan Karadzic stands trial on charges of genocide in Bosnia, some Muslim survivors have little hope of laying their nightmares to rest. Lauren Comiteau talks to one man about the fruitless search for closure.
The 24 Laziest Countries
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With the word's best athletes competing in Vancouver, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to determine the most slothful nations on the planet. Welcome to the Couch Potato Olympics.
The Pure Greed of Obama's Phony Health-Care Reform
How Oscars Ruin a Marriage
Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
The Courting of Christiane
Rebecca Dana is a senior correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
15 Reasons to Watch TV This Spring
Jace Lacob is the writer/editor of Televisionary, a website devoted to television news, criticism, and interviews. Jace resides in Los Angeles. He is a contributor to several entertainment Web sites and can be found on Twitter and Facebook.
The '80s, Part II
Gina Piccalo spent a decade at the Los Angeles Times covering Hollywood. She's now a contributing writer for Los Angeles Magazine and her work has appeared in Elle, More and Emmy. She can be found at ginapiccalo.com.
