CR Holiday Interview #6: Tim Hodler on the Year in Art Comics
I also used to enjoy Perry Bible Fellowship when it ran in the New York Press, but I stopped reading that paper years ago, and always forget to bookmark the online strip. I think I'll do that now. I'm sure there are other good online ...
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Two Giulianis: He's even more two-faced than we thought
Just a year earlier, the mayor had $400000 to $800000 in pension and retirement funds due him, and now he had a $3 million book deal. Still, in New York City, what was that for a powerful man of 57? Not much. ...
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"We Are Shocked Management Withheld This Information" - LOL
In December, apartment rents dropped in both Upper West Side and Upper East Side non-doorman buildings, according to a report out Tuesday from brokerage The Real Estate Group New York. The best deal for a non-doorman studio can be found ...
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This ought to be the final nail in the coffin of laissez-faire ...
“Fed shrugged as subprime crisis spread,” was the headline on a New York Times report on the failure of regulators to regulate. This may have been a discreet dig at Mr. Greenspan’s history as a disciple of Ayn Rand, the high priestess ...
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Ten Smartest CEO Moves of 2007
Efforts by Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney general at the time, to block Grasso from extracting $187.5 million in pay from the New York Stock Exchange (strictly speaking a nonprofit organization at the time, now a for-profit company ...
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Last Minute Holiday Shopping
As always, there is a trouble-free gift certificate. Most people's New Year's resolution has something to do with their body weight. Give them a kick-start on their training with a personal training house call from ExtravaGift. ...
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"64 Journalists Killed Worldwide in 2007, the Most Since ’94
In The Guardian’s review for new media, Jeff Jarvis calls 2007 “the year of Facebook,” as social networking and Facebook were discovered en masse by a wider international community. He also discusses the end of the paywall and the rise ...
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Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity? — Ronald Reagan ...
I've become so intimately acquainted with this album it boggles my mind that I've only been listening to it since September, when Beyond/In Western New York exhibiting artist David Clayton gave me a copy, amid a pile of other great ...
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Disorient presents: 8: THE OFFICIAL AFTERPARTY* OF NEW YEAR'S EVE
and french toast breakfast Come start 2008 right with Disorient. On New Year's Day, January 1, 2008, our doors open at 4am, breakfast is served at 8am, and the New York underground tribes gather for an all-day extravaganza. ...
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Regarding 3rd Jerseys Part 2
The Rangers first brought out the Statue of Liberty jerseys in 1996, and there is a rather interesting article from The New York Times talking about them before they were ever used. It includes the great quote from Luc Robitalle, ...
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HEDGE FUND NEWS @ 21 December 2007
Tim Selby, a partner with alternative investment firm Alston & Bird in New York, said the crisis reiterated the value of diversification: “No matter how promising a particular sector is, people should not throw all their money into it. ...
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Random Pre-Holiday Stuff
A dc-all-star "Fairytale of New York" was in there somewhere. Nice. Thanks to Bob, Rich, Nick and Amber for letting us stay in the club following the show, while they setup for Blowoff. We weren't looking forward to hanging outside in ...
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General Petraeus and the CAIR Bears
As America faced New York City tragedy, John Howard fought back against bombings in Bali. For those who think that trees are more important than human beings, try being a schoolteacher in a fundamentalist nation. ...
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More On Fluffy
“Great” she says, absentmindedly flipping through The New York Post. “I want you to look at some of the stuff I shot”, you say, hoping to garner both her attention and her respect (forget it). She continues to flip the pages of the ...
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2008 PR and Marketing Trends to Watch
PR still slow to adapt to the new environment: It would be easy to say that next year will be the year when the PR industry will turn the corner and itself start to adapt to the social media, always-on environment. ...
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He Was Passionate about His Borrowers
In 2005 and 2006, New York bankers expanded the market for mortgage-backed securities by creating new subprime derivatives contracts. The derivatives, which amplified the risks of the underlying mortgages, were sold to banks and ...
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Publisher Feature: Marion Boyars
Can you expand on this? How do you achieve this? With very hard work and contacts. I watched Book TV in New York and saw Asne Seierstad appearing at the Los Angeles Book festival with two other Iraqi authors. I then arranged an event at ...
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Dell Year-End Report Card: B [Dell Report Card]
The State of New York filed suit against the company because the company's "exasperated consumers, fed up with the endless runaround and ineffective technical support, resort to paying a third party to fix their equipment...even though ...
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Good Morning!
Nanosolar starts sales of cheaper solar panelsNEW YORK (Reuters) - Nanosolar, a privately held solar energy company whose backers include Google Inc's co-founders, on Tuesday said it has started to sell what it calls "the world's lowest ...
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Data Feed
“As in most investigations, the issue comes down to what did people know and when did they know it,” said Mark Schonfeld, director of the SEC’s New York office. Among the cos the SEC is examining for their mortgage-securities valuations ...
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Now that Everybody is Suddenly an Expert...
It is one thing for a central banker to summon the heads of various financial firms into a room to sort out the mess at hedge fund LTCM, as the New York Federal Reserve chief reportedly did in 1998. Despite the fact that the Fed had ...
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Disaster Capitalism
The early results can be seen in the lobbies of many office buildings in New York or London - airport-style check-ins complete with photo-ID requirements and X-ray machines - but the industry has far greater ambitions, ...
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The Great Fed Bluff That Got Whacked Back
Northeast: 160478 filings YTD, up 125.89% from YTD 2006 numbers... Pre-foreclosures by Top 10 states in numbers of filings November 2007 year to date vs. same time 2006:... New York: 45758 filings, up 71.08% from YTD 2006... ------ ...
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DC THURSDAY
The bulk of its lost circulation in the past 14 years has come from a decline in single-copy sales. In comparison, USA Today charges 75-cents for a newsstand copy, the New York Times $1.25, but the Washington Times is still only ...
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GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - December 20, 2007
(THE ARTICLE: The Sangamon County Republican Party on Wednesday night endorsed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani for president, and county GOP chairman Tony Libri said Giuliani may be the party’s Lincoln Day Luncheon speaker at a ...
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A Liquor of Legend Makes a Comeback
To find out, I tried the two absinthes on sale in New York along with an early sample of St. George Absinthe Verte. And I was astonished by how delicate, gentle and refreshing they were. Astonished in part because of my earlier run-ins ...
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Interest rates are low but lenders won’t lend
The New York Fed injected $20.75 billion in short-term funds into the money market on Thursday, more than one-quarter of it in two- week loans. But hey - the average daily injection in November was $45.95bn. So on a relative basis, ...
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HEDGE FUND NEWS @ 19 December 2007
New York-based Citigroup said last week it would take over seven SIVs with $58 billion of debt. Banks want to avoid forced assets sales to repay SIV borrowings because that would further roil credit markets and reduce the value of their ...
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Some See Conflict In Dual Role.; AARP Is Drug Plan Advocate, Marketer
The State Health Insurance Assistance Program in New Jersey is at 1-800-792-8820. The Medicare Rights Center in New York offers counseling at 1-800-333-4114. Contact staff writer Karl Stark at 215-854-5363 or kstark@phillynews.com. ...
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The Gamesman
When Wynn mentioned he was on his way to New York, Kotick asked if he could tag along. (“He was hitchhiking,” Wynn recalls in an email.) When they reached cruising altitude in Wynn’s private DC9, Kotick started telling the gambling ...
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