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A new book that sells the concept of Communism “in the simple terms of a children’s story” has failed to sell on Amazon.com — except in the category for true believers. “Communism for Kids” by MIT Press “unfolds like a story, with jealous princesses, fancy swords, displaced peasants, mean bosses, and tired workers,” its Amazon.com page explains. […] Scathing customer reviews give the book a rating of only 1.7 out of 5 stars, with comments noting communism has killed “over 60 million people” and asking, “If Communism is so great why are they selling the book. Isn’t that capitalism?” …

NEW YORK, NY (January 19, 2010)-- The results are in from the Poll of the Top 100 "Dream" Interview Guests of 2010. InterviewGuests.com, in conjunction with other PR agencies and professionals throughout the broadcast media business, announce the winners. See list below or go to: http://www.interviewguests.com/guests/articles/viewnews.cgi?id=EkAVFAyZlVkfjCQSBD&tmpl=default Ballots were distributed to 18,000 members of the news media. In the historic poll of 1150 nominees representing a 'Who's Who' of the world, Politics and Entertainment dominated the top 100 list. Although there were Nobel Laureates, genius scientists and other noteworthy people nominated, after more than 1000 votes were cast, the three most...

Gov. Palin appeared on Glenn Beck's radio show to discuss being named to Time Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential people. Beck made the list, too. Includes full audio of the interview.

U.S. News and World Report just published its annual ranking of the top 100 public high schools in America. Arizona punches above its weight on this list. Arizona has less than two percent of the nation’s K-12 students but has three schools on the list: University High School in Tucson, Basis Tucson and Northland Preparatory Academy in Flagstaff. University High is a magnet school and Basis and Northland both are charter schools. Congratulations to all three. Rankings are always subject to criticisms, and these are no exception. For example, many states allow magnet schools to be academically selective, employing admissions...

Star-Telegram Staff Writer; Special to the Star-Telegram Just as they did with rock 'n' roll, naysayers once predicted that country music wouldn't last, that it was just a passing fad. Of course, a lot of that naysaying happened in the 1980s, when Elvira was popular. Who coulda blamed 'em for wanting that song to go away? But country music, of course, hasn't gone anywhere. If anything, its popularity has blossomed even more than at the height of the so-called "Urban Cowboy" movement in the '80s. Country music today has as big a role in popular music as hip-hop, rock, indie-rock...

NORTH HAVEN — Mark Powell and Mary Lou Stamp are fond of North Haven for its community spirit, while for Leslie Corey, it's the lay of And all of them agree with Money magazine's assessment that North Haven is among the "100 Best Places to Live in the United States." The rating, announced Tuesday by the magazine, comes as a welcome bit of positive news to a town whose reputation was sullied earlier this year with the arrests of three top officials, two of whom are accused of embezzling town funds and a third of helping to cover up the...

Sorted by rank of power is the top Celebrity 100 Top 5 Models include(Hit "Previous" link in left hand corner for photos): Gisele Bundchen Heidi Klum Christy Turlington Carolyn Murphy Milla Jovovich

Here's the LIFE magazine list of the 100 people who made the Millennium, ranked in order of importance. Let the debates begin!

Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th centuryWe hope to soon feature all the speeches by women listed below. Compiled by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Texas A & M University, this list reflects the opinions of 137 leading scholars of American public address. (Full text of news release.) Rank Title Speaker Date Place 1 "I Have a Dream" Martin Luther King, Jr. 28 Aug 1963 Washington, DC 2 Inaugural Address John F. Kennedy 20 Jan 1961 Washington, DC 3 First Inaugural Address Franklin D. Roosevelt 4 Mar 1933 Washington, DC 4 War Message ("A Date which...