Word: habitability
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Believers in legit downloading think they can win over citizens to a new law-abiding habit. "Somebody in your neighborhood will always have pirated cable," says Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks. "But the social norm is, if you want cable, you pay for it." Yet freeloaders won't necessarily go quietly. LaTisha Knowles, 19, a Florida A&M sophomore and former avid file sharer, still refuses to buy CDs. "It's a waste of money," she says. Karen Keenan, 26, a copywriter in Chicago, downloads regularly from iTunes--but also from free file sharer LimeWire. "I have the same moral...
...dwell so much on credentials, the kind that family friends include in their nauseating holiday letters, in part because they do matter. Graduate schools, fellowship committees and job interviewers will use them to judge us. But mostly, we care out of habit, because those credentials were the bedrock of our self-esteem for over a dozen years of schooling. We are pressured to evaluate ourselves on the admissions office’s criteria because those credentials have always brought us the most effusive praise, not to mention acceptance at Harvard and high-powered opportunities once we leave...
...according to unnamed sources in all the papers, is Murdoch's 30-year-old son James. For many public companies, such a move would be considered drastic for its blatant nepotism. But this tasted like vintage Murdoch. For decades the global mogul has made a habit of replacing successful bosses within his vast $17.5 billion News Corp. empire (which owns 35.4% of BSkyB). But even if it's in character, Ball's removal, if true, raises serious questions. After all, BSkyB wasn't falling, so why mess with a winning formula? Or is Ball leaving of his own accord? Does...
Newcomers to Watch—TB Clifton Dawson. The sophomore transfer from Northwestern has shown exceptional speed and should see playing time, especially considering Harvard’s habit of using more than one back...
...caught leaving Algeria for Paris with €2 million in suitcases - money destined for cash-deprived Khalifa affiliates in Europe. One week later, the Bank of Algeria appointed administrators to oversee El Khalifa Bank's operations, citing multiple "irregularities." Khalifa's rapid access to suspiciously abundant capital and his habit of hiring unqualified family members of Algeria's ruling class led many observers to suspect another agenda. As early as last October, for example, a leaked French intelligence report estimated the conglomerate's annual losses at about €500 million and fueled suspicions that Khalifa's empire had been assembled...