James Cameron forced to scrap plans for Hiroshima film

Publisher Henry Holt and Company said that author Charles Pellegrino 'was not able to answer' concerns about 'The Last Train from Hiroshima,' including whether two men mentioned in the book actually existed.

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Baseball Historians Get Their Own Hall - Bats Blog - NYTimes

The Society for American Baseball Research will honor the stars of its own by creating, in effect, the Baseball Historian Hall of Fame: The Henry Chadwick Award. Bill James and Lawrence Ritter are among the nine initial honorees.

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Hollywood highlights Taiwan's

Hollywood movie Formosa Betrayed with James Van Der Beek looks at murder of Taiwanese journalist Henry Liu during Taiwan's White Terror

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Obama's beer summit vs. Obama's health-care summit

Two of the biggest media-frenzy moments of the Obama presidency have also been two of the most contrived: the "beer summit" of July 30, when Obama met with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley in the White House Rose Garden, and the health-care summit on...

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