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...quality public securities." Since that time, stocks in both Canada and the U.S. have plunged. O'Leary told Canadian business magazine Profit in June 2003, "There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all." If O'Leary doesn't turn things around at his funds, he can add one more manager to his list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Shark Tank Guru: In Real Life, No Business Whiz | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...project proved controversial from the start, with U.S. publishers accusing the Internet giant of copyright infringement. Google eventually came to an agreement with them over the issue. But as a New York court tries to decide whether or not the agreement is legitimate, it's now Europe's turn to cry foul, with European publishers complaining the settlement is unfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Publishers Fight Against Google Books | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...early minutes of New Years Day, at the turn of the millennium, while most New Yorkers were partying or panicking about Y2K and its accompanying Armageddon, 150 coked-out people in orange jumpsuits came tumbling out of a Manhattan warehouse, breathing fresh air for the first time in months. These individuals were living their last hours under 24-hour surveillance in an underground bunker—complete with shooting range, communal showers, and bedroom cubicles. Behind this “social experiment”—entitled “Quiet: We Live in Public?...

Author: By Mia P. Walker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Public’ Exposure at Brattle Theatre | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...work done was because I'm on television. If I were a public school teacher like my sister Joyce, doing the Lord's work - unlike me, who's telling dick jokes for a living - I wouldn't have gotten anything done. But I have to. The next time you turn on your TV, think about the fact that 90% of the women have had some form of what I call "dental work." That's my new code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Kathy Griffin | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...pigs and chickens—living on factory farms and dying in slaughterhouses face abuses so severe that they could warrant felony cruelty-to-animals charges were dogs or cats the victims. McDonald’s suppliers cram mother pigs into crates that are too small for them to turn around in, cram hens into tiny cages that cause their muscles and bones to waste away from lack of use, and kill chickens using a method that guarantees that every year millions of birds will still be conscious when they are immersed in the scalding-hot water of defeathering tanks...

Author: By Bruce G. Friedrich | Title: The Case for Animal Rights | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

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