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...What's an UnResolution? The whole idea of a resolution is things that you've been doing that you want to try to do better, and I thought especially now, there's so much going on in the world and it's difficult, and people are struggling. And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were. For example, sometimes, I admit this even for TIME.com, that I sleep in my clothes. I did last night...
...fight the recession are creating a new menu of potential troubles. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said in an address in London in late November that "the storm has passed" but "the global economy remains very much in a holding pattern - stable, and getting better, but still highly vulnerable." He added: "There is a lot of uncertainty in the air." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
Online sales fared considerably better this past weekend. ComScore, a digital research firm, estimates that cyber sales on Black Friday totaled $595 million, making it the second heaviest online spending day so far in 2009 and up 11% from Black Friday 2008. PayPal said it saw a 20% increase in the amount of money people spent using PayPal to purchase items this Black Friday from last year and a 140% spike in the volume of payments made by mobile phones. The mobile-phone transaction increase indicates that buyers shopping at brick-and-mortar sites were likely price-checking items with...
...Online sales clearly did better, but that's only 4% of total retail sales," says Davidowitz...
...feel that with Jay's new responsibilities in University Hall and the escalating demands of Cheryl's job we are unable to put in the time or do the job the way we think it ought to be done,” they wrote. “Cabot deserves better than we feel we can give it at this time, and so we think it is best that we step aside and allow the College to bring in some new blood...