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...tickets for free, at face value, or a little above. However, these benevolent e-mails were immediately followed by those from “entrepreneurial” students, who offered their tickets at a few hundred percent above face value. In some cases they even set up bidding wars, either officially on eBay or through the abbreviation OBO—“Or Better Offer.” These students are not entrepreneurs; they are extortionists...

Author: By Shiv M. Gaglani | Title: Entrepreneurs or Extortionists? | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

...nothing, says Publishers Weekly's Coffey, can take the place of a book by the woman herself. "The real goal is going to be a book that either is authorized or by Michelle, or ghostwritten with her," he says. A wonkish book about public education or women in the workplace, a tell-all campaign memoir, a heartwarming tale of raising two girls - no matter. Says Coffey: "In this situation, which is still in the early morning of what might be a long historic journey for the Obama family, I think publishers would be really eager to win the rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Will Michelle Obama Write Her Book? | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...time to escape; their houses disintegrated around them, and they burned to death. As firefighters battle the flames and police begin to investigate possible cases of arson around some of the fires, there will surely be debates over the wisdom of Australia's standard policy of advising residents to either flee a fire early or stay in their homes and wait it out. John Brumby, the premier of the fire-hit Australian state of Victoria, told a local radio station on Monday that "people will want to review that ... There is no question that there were people who did everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Global Warming May Be Fueling Australia's Fires | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...leaned heavily on his left flank early in his term and soon discovered no one else was following him. Bush clung to his base from the start - and never budged. (Both men were re-elected; Clinton by moving to the middle; Bush by refusing to do so.) I doubt either man would repeat their strategy if they could do it all over again. While there aren't many centrist votes in Congress to build anything around anymore, there are legislative proposals that moderate voters will appreciate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Obama Learn from the Stimulus Saga? | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...whether they would offer more troops. German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Jung told the conference that the priority in Afghanistan should be civic support. "We will not win by military means alone," he said. "There can be no development without security, but there can be no security without development either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: No Blank Check for Obama on Global Security | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

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