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...also included best-selling authors Dan Ariely of MIT (Predictably Irrational) and Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago (Nudge) as well as Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman of Princeton - has never been publicly disclosed, even though its members gave Obama white papers on messaging, fundraising and rumor control as well as voter mobilization. All their proposals - among them the famous online fundraising lotteries that gave small donors a chance to win face time with Obama - came with footnotes to peer-reviewed academic research. "It was amazing to have these bullet points telling us what...
...Rumor has it that Harvard will soon unveil the identity of this year's commencement speaker. So while Harvard officials remain tight-lipped, Flyby has put together a list of who not to cross your fingers for. Commencement would-be horrors after the jump...
...rumor briefly circulated Hungary a few weeks ago: things were so bad, it went, that the government intends to freeze bank accounts. The government repeatedly assured Hungarians that the rumor was groundless. But so deep is the current economic malaise gripping the country that thousands of people were taken...
Flyby went out delivering letters Housing Day morning as part of the Quincy house delegation in order to witness freshman sorrow and joy--that sweet trial and tribulation--firsthand. But with the exception of an unconfirmed rumor that one new Currierite vomited after receiving their housing news, the morning progressed rather un-dramatically. More after the jump...
...stock is way down. Before the rumor about an IBM deal hit the news, Sun traded at $5, less than a third of its 52-week high. What was lost in the commotion about the buyout was that Sun's shares had moved from $3.84 to $5 in just six trading days. Most of that increase was due to the rally in the overall market. And, if the market keeps going up, the price of potential acquisitions is going to get more expensive, even if the underlying businesses of the targets has not changed...