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Bargain-hunting shoppers turned out in droves for Black Friday markdowns, but they didn't open their pocketbooks as widely as last year, according to several retail firms tracking the data. As a result, retailers are only cautiously optimistic heading into the mainstream holiday season, including today's Cyber Monday, and experts believe that many stores will likely have to revamp promotions and discounting plans to ensure that inventories will be cleared by Christmas. (See pictures of people shopping on Black Friday...
...Austrian director is known for his contradictions. A former film critic and television producer, Haneke, 67, prides himself on being an art-house provocateur and a fierce critic of big-budget, Hollywood movies. And yet his films have recently started to attract more mainstream audiences and enjoy commercial success. Four years after his thriller Hidden earned a respectable $16 million at the box office worldwide, he is garnering critical acclaim and snapping up awards for his latest film, The White Ribbon. The movie, released this fall in Europe and set to open in December in the U.S., won the Palme...
...that's happened only at a few off-the-beaten-track colleges. But mainstream economists, who had long dismissed market cycles as nonsense, have begun to come around at least a little. Yale's Robert Shiller describes market booms and busts as the product of fashion and animal spirits. A trio of academics revisited a famous 1934 paper that debunked the predictions of Dow theorist Hamilton and found that, adjusted for risk, Hamilton's predictions beat the market. MIT's Andrew Lo, a top finance scholar, has made technical analysis one of his main research topics. So maybe there...
Palin's quote was apt, though, in that her weeklong media blitz seemed to be testing the waters for a new kind of public influence, one outside the politics-as-usual path of "holding office" and "governing" and "finishing your term." And if it meant going through the mainstream media--which Going Rogue calls "in many respects, worthless as a source of factual information anymore"--well, a rogue's gotta do what a rogue's gotta...
...organizer Nimer Sultany, a doctorate in law candidate at the Law School, said that the event lived up to its purpose of giving American college students access to “facts and perspectives” about Middle East issues excluded by the mainstream media...