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The already frayed relationship between Vicki Kennedy and her late husband’s children is at the breaking point, with the two sons growing increasingly convinced that she is jeopardizing the senator’s legacy and mishandling the creation of the $71 million institute that bears his name.

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Much of the conflict centers around the construction and governance of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate, a project that faces potential cost overruns, according to a close family friend who was authorized by some family members to speak on their behalf, but who declined to be named.

Edward M. Kennedy Jr. and Patrick Kennedy, the senator’s children, believe their father’s widow is badly bungling the efforts to create what their father had hoped would be a monument to his storied career in the US Senate, said the friend, whose account was confirmed by another close family associate.

via Kennedy’s widow, sons at odds over legacy – The Boston Globe.

Accenture reported in June that baby boomers will leave $30 trillion to their children in the next 30 to 40 years. This is on top of the nearly $12 trillion that MetLife predicted in 2010 that boomers would receive from their parents.

via What to Tell Children About Their Bequest and When – NYTimes.com.

By the end of 2014, NATO needs to remove about 100,000 shipping containers full of equipment and 50,000 wheeled vehicles from Afghanistan; it will leave behind any unused fuel. NATO officials point out that in order for all International Security Assistance Force ISAF military equipment to be removed from Afghanistan in time, a container would have to leave the country every seven minutes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, starting now — a tough order.

via Stuck in the Mud | Foreign Affairs.

Drones That May Fly ‘Indefinitely’ Can Be Recharged By Lasers « CBS Los Angeles.

A forthcoming report from the conservative organization Americans for Limited Government (ALG) details how President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) sent her children to a politically left-wing Jewish summer camp with Communist roots.

Obama nominated Erica Groshen to be the BLS commissioner in February, but this new report — obtained by The Daily Caller and set to be released on Thursday — reveals for the first time publicly that she sent her children to Camp Kinderland. The ALG report reveals how “Groshen and her husband are listed in the Kinderland Directory 2011-2012, which indicates that they sent children to the camp during the 1990s and 2000s.”

“Camp Kinderland was founded in the 1923 as a place for the children of radical Jewish activists,” the report continues.

According to New York University, some of the camp’s founders were “activists in the Communist Party,” and all “were associated with the left wing of the Workermen’s Circle.”

“From 1930 the camp operated under the auspices of a branch of the International Workers Order [IWO],” NYU researchers add.

The U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee and New York state investigated the camp for its communist ties in the 1950s — something the camp’s website calls “red baiting witch hunts.” The investigation prompted Camp Kinderland to make a “legal determination” that it was not a part of the IWO.

via Obama labor agency nominee sent her kids to Communist-rooted summer camp | The Daily Caller.

Notes from behind the Tensabarriers of Sun Valley | Capital New York.

Survey Shows Growing Strength of E-BooksBy JULIE BOSMANE-books continued their surge in 2011, surpassing hardcover books and paperbacks to become the dominant format for adult fiction last year, according to a new survey of publishers released Wednesday.For several years, consumers have been rapidly switching from print to digital for reading novels, a sign of the growing strength of the e-book for narrative, straightforward storytelling.

via Survey Shows Growing Strength of E-Books – NYTimes.com.

At recent campaign events in Pennsylvania, Virginia and again Monday in Ohio, Obama spoke to crowds in high school gymnasiums and at crowded outdoor events without his teleprompter, instead using written notes.The difference is dramatic. Instead of turning in his characteristic manner from right to left and back again, reading from the two sloping, clear-plastic planes of his teleprompter, Obama has glanced down at pages in a binder on his podium.

via Obama switches off teleprompter – TheHill.com.

Citing the $1 million-plus travel cost of the last Maui conference in 2010 and the availability to conferees of such activities as sport fishing and snorkeling, the senators have repeatedly called on the court to cancel the conference or scale it back. In reply, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, an appointee of Republican President Ronald Reagan, has described the conference as an important educational gathering and said the accommodations cost less than many similarly sized hotels on the mainland.

via 9th U.S. court cancels 2013 conference – SFGate.

CONWAY — The founder and editor of The Oxford American is no longer employed by the award-winning magazine, the publisher said Monday.Warwick Sabin confirmed the departure of editor Marc Smirnoff and another editorial employee, Carol Ann Fitzgerald, from the literary magazine. Citing personnel matters, Sabin declined to give a reason for their departures.The developments follow Sabin’s decision to have employees locked out of the magazines editorial offices at the University of Central Arkansas on Wednesday night. He said later that a personnel investigation was under way.

via Smirnoff out at Oxford American.