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...Payack also suggested that the University’s decision to change the John F. Kennedy School of Government to the Harvard Kennedy School may have had some bearing. “It never hurts to find a recognizable name,” said Leighton W. Klein, a Web journalist at the Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. “It never hurts to cite a University that represents authority and knowledge.” Payack said that Harvard has been successful in branding itself as a University...
...Your Own Course," appears to have been designed by the guy who did the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies. Also, like most aspects of "the Fortnight," it seems like way too much money was spent on branding and not enough on substance (we have a wiki now! Web...
...Online advertising revenue may not soon supplant DVD sales in developed countries. But, where legal, high-quality DVDs are either unavailable or have simply lost out to cheap, low-quality pirated ones, whatever little revenue may come in from the Web is worth it. American viewership is accelerating its decades-long flight to cable channels. In the short term, networks need whatever revenue they can get. Internet broadcasts point the way forward. Active experimentation on a global scale is the only way to refine the current model of online advertising and distribution into something that can support the costly...
...Although CDSs work like insurance for investments, buying and selling them is similar to trading stocks. This generates a hazardous web of firms that hedged bets by both buying and selling CDSs. If one firm defaults, it cannot pay out the next firm’s insurance that can cause another firm to default, and so on. To further complicate matters, since CDSs are unregulated, there is no authority to which these transactions are reported. Thus, no single firm knows how many CDS deals have been made, and firms do not know to whom most CDSs have been sold. Additionally...
...agency would save $4 million per year on contractors. What he didn't mention was that hundreds of CIA staffers were involved in overseeing the prisons. The tail to tooth ratio in the CIA is no different from any other government agency. (Read Wikipedia for Spies: The CIA Discovers Web...