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(01/15/13 8:05am)
Just more than four years ago, the American economy came crashing down in a financial crisis facilitated by systematic corporate mismanagement and reckless risktaking that, in many people’s eyes, often went unpunished at a judicial level despite plenty of evidence toward personal culpability.
(12/03/12 7:31am)
George Washington may need to be evicted from his 143-year reign on the $1 bill, or so advises the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, in order to further cut spending by replacing dollar bills with coins. The change is not without good reason — a solid $4.4 billion of taxpayer’s money would be saved over the course of 30 years. However, many Americans believe that the practical change may not be worth the humbling of pride surrounding the usage of our dollar bill.
(11/26/12 7:37am)
There is no book that cannot be condensed into a single film, even if it takes three hours to tell the story properly. If producer Peter Jackson could get J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” onto the silver screen in a swift 3 hours and 19 minutes, or if Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski siblings could translate “Cloud Atlas” into 2 hours and 52 minutes, then whoever directed “Twilight” should be ashamed after taking nearly four hours to put “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” on screen, even if he or she was only following orders from the studio to split the feature into two parts so it could further raid the pockets of its fan base.
(11/19/12 6:52am)
I’d wager that some people care more about claiming a personal victory in the results of the election than they do about the world of potential, possibility and hope ideally ushered in by the winning candidate they’ve spent the last few months, or only few days, supporting.
(11/07/12 8:36am)
How on Earth could anyone be talking about politics at a time like this? George Lucas recently dealt LucasFilm to Disney for a handsome $4.05 billion, and while blasé mice and men blindly discuss pedantic matters such as the next four years of the world’s most powerful country, the truly refined sophisticates are philosophizing over a far more pressing matter: the fate of the world’s favorite space opera.
(10/29/12 5:03am)
Alternative to fiat currency susceptible to price shifts, supply limitations
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(09/28/12 5:37am)
Despite his recent assurance in a CBS interview, Mitt Romney’s campaign needs a turnaround. Although Romney has a respectable portion of the Electoral College predicted as being locked down, 191 votes in fact, his remaining path toward the necessary 270 has come to an uncomfortable bottleneck. President Barack Obama’s superior campaign strategy has bullied Romney into a corner and clinched them a further 20 electoral votes after Romney’s concession of Pennsylvania, marking a significant loss for the Republicans that only places more pressure on their end game as Election Day inches closer. The Democrats are close to assuming the victory formation unless the Republicans can manage to find some kind of rhythm and focal point to drive forward, but there’s no denying the doubt regarding capability that has accompanied Romney’s campaign in the recent months.
(09/17/12 8:39pm)
Last Tuesday, September 11th, 2012, veteran U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens died amid the violence of a prolonged attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya while on a routine visit to further strengthen the growing bond between Americans and Libyans. The heart-wrenching death of an ambassador that routinely went above and beyond the call of duty in his pursuit to establish a sense of justice, security and democracy for the good people of Libya has already become a torrent for political diatribe, though his legacy will carry far more weight than an election season battleground could ever designate so.
(09/10/12 5:49am)
Two Fridays ago, technology Goliath Apple Inc. was awarded $1 billion and some change after a nine-person jury ruled Samsung guilty of violating a variety of Apple's patents. While the $1,049,343,540 worth of damages levied upon Samsung is ghastly to mere financial mortals such as ourselves, it is ultimately recoverable for a titan like Samsung. Doubts of whether Samsung can endure the penalties, which will assuredly be appealed immediately, should be quelled. However, there's another $1 million question (or rather, billion) we all ought to wonder: What does this mean for the future of technological innovation?
(09/08/12 10:15am)
Well, that's a wrap. This presidential election's conventions have come and gone, and they were about as typical as one would expect. It wouldn't be American politics if it hadn't been filled with plenty of mudslinging. Throw in a healthy dose of hyperbole and heart-string plucking (e.g., the family whose financial well-being completely depends on their health insurance's coverage of their young daughter) and you've got yourself rigmarole as predictable as the crowds for the parties: older, presumably wealthy, white folks for the Republicans and a youthful, diverse and perhaps more energetic audience for the Democrats.