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Angwin's book is a tour through MySpace's turbulent adolescence. The site's massive growth made it an easy target for hackers, privacy advocates, parent groups, competitors and (fortunately for co-founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe) investors with fat checkbooks. But with its purchase by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, MySpace has gone from freewheeling, easy-living Web start-up to establishment player. And as it reluctantly approaches maturity, MySpace has new challenges to face, securing advertisers and innovating new features chief among them. Oh yeah - and a pesky little start-up called Facebook...
Such financial uncertainty is stoking fears of backsliding to an era when private colleges were the ivy-covered province of the privileged. Skidmore assistant director of admissions Marisa Ferrara fielded her first ever requests this year from parents rescinding financial-aid applications at the eleventh hour for fear that they would harm their children's chances of getting in. "They're feeling this guilt," Ferrara recalls of a phone call with one such parent. "You could almost hear it in this mother's voice, saying, 'I'll do anything. I don't want my kid not to get in because...
...page 23. Do items 1 through 8, but don't do 5.' And you've just given them four or five directions. The child with working-memory problems has dropped three of them, and so he's like, 'Page 23 - what I am supposed to do?' " Similarly, a parent might tell a kid, "Take my keys, go to the car, get your sister's toy, and before you go, take the trash with you." The ADHD kid will get to the car without remembering what else to do. Their instructions must be broken down carefully because their working memory...
...bonuses were retention payments promised early last year, when it was clear that London-based AIG FP was in trouble but not yet apparent that its parent company wouldn't survive without $170 billion (and counting) in taxpayer aid. Without that aid, AIG would have gone bankrupt in September and the bonus promises would have been torn up. AIG was not allowed to go bankrupt because Lehman Brothers had just failed and the people at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve worried (with reason) that another failure - in particular, the failure of a firm that wrote default insurance...
...Starring roles in movies came less frequently after that. She played roles supporting Jodie Foster (Nell), Lindsay Lohan (The Parent Trap) and Jennifer Lopez (Maid in Manhattan), and appeared with a whole parliament of female stars, including her mother, in the 2007 Evening. But the stage was Richardson's place to shine. In David Leveaux's sturdy revival of Anna Christie, she jettisoned Garbo's singsong Swedish inflections for a flat Minnesota accent. More helpfully, she made Anna a fighter, battered on the wheel of men's lust but still standing defiantly tall...