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...amazed that TIME's cover story made no mention of the Big Three's most obvious and most easily remedied failure: clueless marketing. Consider that GM, arguably the world's biggest car company, is worth far less today than Harley-Davidson, the world's fourth largest motorcycle maker. Dexter Ford MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...York Anatomy of a Scam Celebrated money manager Bernard Madoff was arrested for allegedly bilking investors out of up to $50 billion in a Ponzi scheme described as one of history's largest swindles. The scam's blueprint hasn't changed much since Charles Ponzi's 1920 fraud: 1 Entice investors by promising an unusually lucrative rate of return. 2 Use a portion of the raised capital to pay out early dividends, thereby giving the appearance of legitimacy--which in turn attracts more investors. 3 Pay off earlier investors with money accrued from later victims. 4 When no further capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...announcement comes two weeks after news that Harvard's endowment, higher education's largest, fell 22 percent—or $8 billion—in four months from its June 30 value of $36.9 billion...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale Loses a Quarter of its Endowment | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

Yale's endowment—the second largest in higher education—has lost an estimated quarter of its value since June 30, plunging to $17 billion from $22 billion this summer, Yale officials said Tuesday...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale Loses a Quarter of its Endowment | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...tapped Duncan to be schools chief in 2001, after first offering the job to someone else. Duncan was only 36 and had never before held a high-powered post and had never even had his own secretary, according to the Chicago Tribune. The Chicago school system is the third-largest in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education Secretary: Arne Duncan | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

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