Archive for December, 2009:

Spring Semester Speaker Series, Conference Schedules Shape Up at UC Berkeley’s Haas School

As winter break draws to an end, MBA students at the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business have an exciting array of scheduled speakers and conferences to look forward to in the spring semester. Beginning in late January, high-profile executives representing industries ranging from healthcare to motion pictures to management consulting will [...]

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Campus Chronicles: The Stern Opportunity

Welcome back to Campus Chronicles, our weekly look at MBA student news papers to better understand the vibrant student life at MBA campuses across the US.  This week we’ll travel to New York City, using The Stern Opportunity to see what’s going on at NYU’s MBA program. Earlier this month Stern students had the chance [...]

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6 Ways to Start the New Year Doing Instead of Dreaming

It is the time of year where many people will attempt to develop their New Year’s resolutions. Whether you have one resolution or a thousand, wouldn’t it be a fabulous accomplishment to be able to say to yourself that 2010 was the year you stopped dreaming about accomplishing your resolutions and started to do them? [...]

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Mike Tyson – Free at Last, Officially

Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Exclusives Mike Tyson will not be prosecuted for allegedly punching a photog at LAX, TMZ has learned.The L.A. City Attorney officially rejected the case today, citing “insufficient evidence.”Tyson was arrested last month for battery after a bloody confrontation … Permalink Go to Source

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Prosecutors Want Charlie Away From Brooke

Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Charlie Sheen Prosecutors in Aspen must not be “Two and a Half Men” fans — they want the restraining prohibiting Charlie Sheen from having contact with Brooke Mueller to stay put.Prosecutor Arnold Mordkin filed a motion in Aspen yesterday opposing dismissal of … Permalink Go to Source

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Cyndi Lee: Yoga: Drip, Drip, The Bucket Fills

Our New Year’s resolutions don’t stick for two main reasons: 1) We have grand notions of what we want — to lose 50 pounds, to be happy, to get a boyfriend, to make a lot more money. Just as sitting down to write a book is so intimidating that most hopeful authors choke, it works [...]

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Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould: Charlie Wilson’s Backfire

As the first journalists to enter Kabul in 1981 for CBS News following the expulsion of the Western media the previous year, we continue to be amazed at how the American disinformation campaign between Hollywood, Washington and Wall Street built around the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan lives on. We’ve seen this pattern from the media [...]

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After TARP: Part 2

optionMONSTER submits: By David Russell As the last major banks that received TARP funding paid off their government debts last week, the general public has been left with the impression that the financial industry finally has a clear path toward recovery. But just as we reported yesterday that the banks are still benefiting from hidden [...]

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Thursday FX Interest Rate Monitor

Andrew Wilkinson submits: A positive end to the calendar year in the form of lower claims for unemployment insurance has left the U.S. government bond market nursing losses as evidence mounts that it won’t just be champagne flowing into the New Year. The improving economic tone looks certain to improve in the first quarter of [...]

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Hot Clicks: Marisa Miller; Videos of the Year

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