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Suze Orman The personal-finance guru and best-selling author is a former TIME 100 honoree Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the FDIC, was one of the first government officials to recognize the danger of the subprime crisis and was relentless in fighting for a temporary increase on the limits of FDIC insurance. Because of her efforts, your FDIC-insured deposits are safe and sound...
...that's why Kutiman's viral orchestras are so fascinating. Unlike Philadelphia mash-up guru Gregg Gillis (a.k.a Girl Talk), who mixes hit pop songs and familiar classics, many of the YouTube clips selected by Kutiman, when viewed apart from one another, are ... well... bunk. Who wants to watch - or, for that matter, hear - a vintage fire siren wailing away on a piece of plywood? Or a Cuban percussion instrument made from a gourd. OK, that one is kinda cool, but footage of a trombone recital recorded by an unsteady, possibly intoxicated cameraman? No, thank you. In the Israeli maestro...
Today Icarus is in her shade. In February the Huffington Post, the website she started in 2005 with Ken Lerer and viral-marketing guru Jonah Peretti, became the 15th most popular news site, just below the Washington Post's and above the BBC's. It garnered 8.9 million unique users that month, according to Nielsen - more than double what it attracted a year ago. It gets a million-plus comments from readers a month. A business newswire recently valued the site at more than $90 million. Only one independently held online-content company (Nick Denton's Gawker properties) is worth...
...Shaq Rookie Card Group: As all Harvard College athletes go on to the big leagues to make the big bucks, they should only associate with other athletes who they can be sure aren’t parasites gaming to one day be their agent, lawyer, accountant, or Kabbala guru. Living with other athletes would be a paradise for you. You could have a Matt Christopher book club—solely with your roommates! Think of the new insights you’ll glean for your Gov thesis on “The Kid Who Only Hit Homers...
...know you've really been Ponzi-ed when your investment guru has his own Caribbean island, a $10 million moated castle in Miami, a $100 million fleet of private jets and three or four "outside wives" along with his real one - and calls himself "Sir" despite never having been officially knighted...