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RSS FEED IDEMS: En Passant
- CNBC has reverted to its 1998-99 casino status
Not only is CNBC continually promoting its $1 million betting game (to pre-empt the proposed FoxNews business channel?), but it now showcases unvetted stock hypes by viewers....
- Fred Thompson, the former U.S. Senator from Tennessee,
will be the Republican Presidential nominee....
- When Newt Gingrich disclosed his extramarital affair,
it sounded more like bragging than confessing....
- Shearman & Sterling, the New York law firm defending Bar/Bri for allegedly illegal conduct,
is also defending enemies of the United States....
- West Publishing's Bar/Bri is accused of multiple burglaries
and of bribing law school administrators. Click here....
- I can live without a Slingbox,
but not without TiVo....
- Plaintiffs accusing Bar/Bri and Kaplan of illegal market division
say that the defendants' $49 million settlement offer is chump change....
- You type it.
She'll say it....
- 90
is the new 80....
- With the advent of the Internet,
shopping has become a sport....
- Today's New York Times has an eight-page insert
profiling five Times reporters. That's more than one full broadsheet page per reporter. Now I know why the value of my New York Times stock has plummeted....
- Too many Americans conduct their lives
as if terrorism on our shores is a thing of the past, and not also of the future....
- DVDs of the 125th Anniversary dinner of The Cornell Daily Sun, featuring Kurt Vonnegut,
are now available....
- Remember when the term 'millionaire'
referred to a wealthy person?...
- If Americans can make the world's best airplanes,
why can't we make the world's best cars?...