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Arianna Huffington (born July 15, 1950) is an author and nationally syndicated columnist. She describes herself as a "former right-winger who has evolved into a compassionate and progressive populist."
She was born in Greece as Arianna Stassinopoulos, the daughter of Constantine (a journalist and management consultant) and Elli (Georgiadis) Stassinopoulos. She moved to England at the age of sixteen, and attended Girton College at Cambridge University where she was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1971 and graduated with a MA in EconomicsEconomics is the social science studying how society uses its limited resources to meet desires and wants. Put otherwise, economics studies what, how and for whom society produces. This involves analyzing the production, distribution and consumption of go in 19721972 is a leap year starting on Saturday (click link for calendar). Events January events January 2 the Pierre Hotel Heist Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Loot is at least $4 million January 5 President of the Un.
After graduation she moved to LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri, working as a columnist, critic, and appearing on a number of TV shows. For much of this time she lived with literary critic Bernard LevinHerbert Bernard Levin CBE ( August 19 1928 August 7 2004) was a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He was educated at Christ's Hospital (which he found difficult because of his Jewish origins) and at the London School of Economics. After graduati, who she had met while the two were panellists on TV show Face the MusicFace The Music was a popular BBC television series about classical music. It began in 1966 and ran well into the 1970s. The programme was in the form of a quiz, but there was no scoring and no winner. It was chaired by Joseph Cooper, and the panel consist. She left Levin in 19801980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. Events January-February January 1- April 1 National steel strike in United Kingdom January 1 Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother January 5 He to move to the US (partly, she later said, because he refused to marry her). On his death in 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co she called Levin "The big love of my life".
In 19861986 is a common year starting on Wednesday. Events January January 1 Spain and Portugal enter the European Community January 1 Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles. January 9 After losing a pa she married Mike Huffington; she was widely thought to have been the instigator of his unsuccessful campaign for the United States Senate in 1994 in which he spent a record-breaking US$30 million of his personal fortune.
In 2000, she instigated the Shadow Conventions, which appeared in both the cities of the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia and the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. To one of the attendees at the Shadow Convention in Philadelphia, State Rep. Mark B. Cohen of Philadelphia, "the subjects of the Shadow Convention--campaign finance reform, reform of America's drug laws,fighting the causes of poverty,reducing corporate influence on the political process--showed that she had come along way from her days as a Gingrich backer while remaining a registered Republican."
Arianna Huffington heads The Detroit Project, a pressure group lobbying automakers to start producing "cars that will end our dependence on foreign oil". The Project's 2003 TV ads, which equated driving sport utility vehicles to funding terrorism, proved to be particularly controversial, with some stations refusing to run them.
Huffington was an independent candidate to replace California governor Gray Davis in the 2003 recall election. She dropped out of the race September 30, 2003, to try to get the recall defeated saying it was the only way to prevent Arnold Schwarzenegger from becoming Governor. "I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger," she said. Huffington's name still appeared on the ballot and she placed 5th in a field of 135 candidates, capturing 0.6% of the votes.
Although she does not normally support Democrats, in an appearance on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, she announced her endorsement of John Kerry on the rationale that "When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling."
Arianna Huffington has written several books including:
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