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...That take-no-prisoners toughness is certainly entertaining, but behind the ego and bluster, O'Leary's real-life business performance is spotty. All four of the funds run by O'Leary's asset-management company are trailing the market this year. Shares of the company's oldest fund, O'Leary Global Equity Income Fund, which was launched in 2008, have plunged nearly 24% in the past year. Next, there's the truth-in-advertising problem: O'Leary calls himself an "eco-preneur," but many of the funds' investments are in coal companies and other large polluters. An O'Leary...
...Europe's rage is tinged with a touch of shame, as the Google Books saga highlights just how far behind European nations lag in their own digitization efforts. When Google started the project five years ago, several countries - France in particular - raised the alarm and proposed grand plans to scan Europe's literary bounty. Still, "only some 1% of the books in Europe's national libraries have been digitized so far," Viviane Reding, E.U. Commissioner for Information Society and Media, noted in a joint statement, warning that "if we are too slow to go digital, Europe's culture could suffer...
...Mather House resident offered to help out one of the pilferers and give whoever swiped his chair the arm rests they left behind...
...exhibit their work. However, these Boston-based groups were limited by their marginal status and brief performances, often displayed in illegal locations. “We all three [of Mobius] felt at the same time that we were searching for something else,” Vogler says.The concept behind Meme is one which pervades our daily life. On the Red Line, under the seats on the ventilation grates, is a repeating pattern: three vertical lines, followed by three horizontal lines. To most, this is the kind of detail which has little meaning, but to Adams, it was the word...
...coked-out people in orange jumpsuits came tumbling out of a Manhattan warehouse, breathing fresh air for the first time in months. These individuals were living their last hours under 24-hour surveillance in an underground bunker—complete with shooting range, communal showers, and bedroom cubicles. Behind this “social experiment”—entitled “Quiet: We Live in Public”—was internet mogul Josh Harris, who lived alongside his subjects until the cops busted them shortly after midnight...