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...viral powerhouse that is YouTube. And like so many panicked reports, this bleak prognosis on the health of American journalism grimly alludes to the 1930s as a way to really emphasize the dire straits we're in: "If estimates by Advertising Age prove accurate, total spending on advertising fell for the second consecutive year. Another decline is predicted for 2009. That would mark the first consecutive three-year decline in advertising spending since the Great Depression." And thanks to such desperate circumstances, news organizations are becoming less adversarial by joining forces to save one another and themselves. Take the Philadelphia...
...Congress and the press, also released the number of the counterparties to many of its credit default swaps. AIG had decided to insure the value of certain paper owned by the likes of Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanly (MS), and Deustsche Bank (DB). When the value of that paper fell, AIG was on the hook to pay off the "insurance" which kept the likes of Goldman from having to book large write downs. Those write downs might have pushed Goldman into a difficult financial situation. The same holds true for a number of the other companies doing business with...
...number of on-campus recruiters at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences fell by nearly 20 percent this spring, leading to an ever-more competitive job market and the diversification of students’ career choices outside of the finance and consulting sectors. According to Robin E. Mount, interim director of the Office of Career Services, recruiting at Harvard College fell 10 percent in the fall of 2008 and 19 percent this spring. Six thousand eRecruiting interviews were held on campus this year, she said. “The economy’s sinking, and we weren?...
...worst losses are the ones in which a team beats itself. Such was the case for the Harvard women’s lacrosse team Saturday afternoon in Providence, R.I, as the Crimson (2-3, 0-1 Ivy) fell to Brown (3-2, 1-0), 12-8, in a lackluster performance that left its players angry and disappointed. “I think that we shot ourselves in the foot,” senior Kaitlin Martin said. “I don’t think that Brown did anything really spectacular. We just threw it away.” Harvard...
...season, but UAB tacled on two more runs in the the sixth to take a 7-5 lead.The Crimson continued to fight hard, as back-to-back doubles in the eighth by Meehan and Albright tightened the contest and a Douglas single knotted the score at 7.Things soon fell apart for the visitors, though, as a solid relief effort from freshman Will Keuper (0-1) melted into a six-run frame. Through 3.1 innings of work, the rookie allowed only six hits, but fellow rookie Marcus Way and Stack-Babich allowed five inherited runners to score, saddling Keuper with...