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...more than just your feelings. You would also have to know whom exactly to sue, which can be virtually impossible since so many Web posts - especially on gossip sites like Juicy Campus, Faceliss and The Dirty - are anonymous or pseudonymous. What's more, the 1996 Communications Decency Act frees site operators from any liability for posts made by visitors to their sites. "It is ridiculous how you can post something on the Internet and not be accountable for it," says Chris Martin, founder of the online-reputation-management firm Reputation Hawk...
...usually mean riskier investments - more commercial paper, say, as opposed to Treasuries. Last Friday, before the Lehman implosion, Reserve Primary Fund was the second highest-yielding fund of the 100 largest tracked by Crane Data. For months before that, it was in the No. 1 slot. "You want to act like the smart caribous and stand in the middle of the pack," says Crane. And, of course, make sure your fund is at a big firm that has the wherewithal to back it up, should it come to that...
Another housing crisis may be looming even as the mortgage meltdown continues and as Americans who once dreamed of home ownership see their properties foreclosed. The Housing Act of 1937, imposed in the wake of the Great Depression, and amended a number of times in the 1970s, is reaching a crossroads - and close to five million Americans who depend on subsidized public housing may soon have to figure out where and how they are going to live...
...Questions ranging from what effect the nude spread will have on di Pasquale’s future career prospects to why he chose to mention that his ex-girlfriend thought his “splooge tasted like unripe bananas” are dwarfed by the sheer audacity of the act itself. The immense self-love poured into a full-color magazine essentially produced to display the mind and body of its creator is truly astounding. Diamond magazine is Harvard’s answer to Alexy Vayner, the Yale graduate who became a YouTube sensation after his preposterously self-promoting...
...prime minister and chairman of the council of ministers, while Mugabe remains president, chairman of the cabinet, and leader of the armed forces. Despite this political solution, economic troubles remain. In order to solve them, the United States, though perhaps wary of the uncertainty of this political union, must act decisively by supporting foreign aid negotiations...