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Current TV, the youth-oriented cable network that Gore launched last August, has been picked up by Comcast for its digital tier, and will reach 28 million homes as of this week, says Gore's business partner Joel Hyatt. The network is in negotiations with cable systems in France, Germany and Italy, and expects to achieve the relatively rare feat of becoming profitable in its first year. Says Hyatt: "We are just on fire." Additionally, Gore has begun a London-based equity firm with former Goldman Sachs Asset Management CEO David Blood. It's a partnership that, despite its nickname...
...massive external liabilities. Investor consensus is frequently wrong-footed by the market. In 2001-02, markets were gripped by the fear of deflation. Commodities were going for a fraction of today's prices, but virtually no one was interested. Today, investors are obsessed with inflation, while government and top-tier corporate bonds are shunned. That should be telling us something. What is it? In the last few years, as the central banks of Japan, the U.S. and Europe took real financing costs to zero, or indeed lower, extraordinary amounts of debt-financed investment took place. Much of this investment...
...major college rankings—U.S. News and World Reports and the Princeton Review—only rank the top few hundred schools. The creation of more a comprehensive ranking system would serve students across the spectrum of academic ability. In particular, students who are not applying to top-tier schools would be given tools to be better gauge which colleges will serve them best...
...dared to add one more accomplishment to her tower and fell all the way back to New Jersey. Somewhere in the sky there is a tier of security, but Kaavya’s fall shows us that right now we are nowhere close...
...beat them, we got the job done. We’ll just have to do better at nationals.” THOMPSON TROPHYThe Crimson’s best squad was at the Thompson Trophy at the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. for a top-tier regatta, and the team didn’t disappoint, engineering perhaps the most dominant performance of the spring season en route to an easy first-place finish.Harvard swept both divisions on its way to just 225 points, 26 ahead of second-place Boston College. Senior Vincent Porter shared time with captain Clay...