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...announcement that Jerry Yang will step down as CEO of Yahoo! was welcome news to investors still seething that the founder turned down an acquisition offer from Microsoft earlier this year worth some $46 billion. (After Yang demanded $4 more per share than Microsoft's offer, the software giant walked away.) Yahoo! is in trouble - its stock price has fallen to around $11 from $29 in February 2008 and it's way behind Google and others in the fast-moving Internet innovation game. (The stock rallied slightly upon news of Yang's departure.) Yang, who took...
...first-ever protest on Monday outside New York City's Manhattan Center for Vaginal Surgery. Two dozen women - ranging in age from teenagers to, ahem, sexagenarians - handed out index cards and held up orange poster boards with the message "No Two Alike," while two members of the group donned giant cloth vulva costumes. New View, which was created in 2000 in response to the introduction of Viagra, is trying to fight what it calls "the medicalization of sex," the idea that there is a physical right and wrong when it comes to all things sexual. Says the group's leader...
...room hotel resort that is over-the-top even by Dubai's standards. A branch of Kerzner's landmark resort in the Bahamas, the Atlantis features opulent rooms from $450 to $35,000 a night; restaurants by star chefs Nobu Matsuhisa, Giorgio Locatelli, Santi Santamaria and Michel Rostang; a giant aquarium containing 65,000 marine animals; and the Middle East's biggest theme park with a waterslide that plunges through a shark tank - an unintended metaphor for the current parlous state of the Dubai property market...
...American auto industry giants—namely, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler—have made a number of poor, if not self-destructive, choices in the past decade, culminating in their current liquidity crisis. While a healthy economy would survive the bankruptcy of a Big Three auto giant, any such failure could plunge the economy as a whole into depression in the current economic environment. In order to prevent this from happening, Congress needs to extend a loan to these companies. The automakers should certainly be held responsible for their own poor choices. Their focus on the production...
...Even so, some students say they will try to make the most of this year’s pre-Game entertainment. Mather House HoCo Co-Chair Troy C. Murrell ’09 said that the Committee may organize a “giant walk-over” from the House’s morning festivities to the field as a means of further extending the revelry and ensuring that at least some students attend. The new rules indicate that while the tailgate will still be entirely keg-free, HoCos will be allowed to serve beer and wine to students...