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...addition to her work at HLS, Donohue has also served as a first-year proctor and academic adviser in addition to being a Harvard parent. McGrath-Lewis said that while Harvard connections were certainly not enough to secure the position, they are helpful...
...website known as CD Universe, which sells music and DVD movies online. Doing business on the Net since 1996, CD Universe had served more than 300,000 customers--which translates to roughly 300,000 credit-card numbers salted away in its electronic files. Last month the site's parent company, eUniverse, based in Wallingford, Conn., was contacted by someone identifying himself as "Maxus," a 19-year-old Russian who claimed to have hacked into those files and filched those numbers. The FBI has since asked the company not to reveal whether that communication came by fax or e-mail...
Both sides insist that any rivalry is merely professional. Vogue is the prestige fashion title for its publisher, Conde Nast, while Bazaar holds the same distinction for its parent company, Hearst. Indeed, from all reports, the women worked well together at Vogue, with Betts' skill as a writer complementing Wintour's impeccable eye. And with the exception of a newspaper article in which Betts, who gave birth to her first child only days after accepting the Bazaar post, expressed disappointment that Wintour had not sent her a baby gift, both women have behaved with determined gentility. Wintour praised Betts...
...newsmagazine that asks an interviewee to sit down and type for 30 seconds for the camera in order to have video of the subject "working." And there are far more egregious, low-tech and common promos on news programs. When a morning show or news broadcast shills its corporate parent's sitcoms or movies, it's crowding out news. CBS's phantom ad crowded out, well, more advertising...
...other new companies, like Informative and Zoomerang, also offer online services for gathering information, but only InsightExpress has access to a vast universe of respondents. Its parent, NFO Worldwide, based in Greenwich, Conn., provides a ready-made panel of 700,000 people profiled to represent the general U.S. population. InsightExpress' partner, Engage Technologies, delivers banner ads to specific groups among 35 million Internet users...