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...love the Web, of course, and fully expect it to continue as the free repository of all information. As a Database of Everything, it is the crowning achievement of civilization. And I absolutely believe that it's possible for certain kinds of low-overhead content producers to eke out a living here, attracting enough audience to generate modest ad revenue. So far, this has worked best for curators, scavengers and commentators - the three pillars of the Temple of Blog - and others who purvey short-form stuff...
...will need perhaps $750 billion in new funding merely to stabilize U.S. banks, which it hopes will be enough to ease the credit markets, stimulate lending and get the economy moving again. There's no telling what kind of political wrangling will happen over that, but one thing seems certain: if you are an executive of a bank that gets federal money, it wouldn't be a smart idea to count on a bonus...
...such selective tax increases are constitutional - and it appears that they can be - another approach would make far more sense (I am brazenly stealing it from financial blogger Steve Randy Waldman): impose a less punitive (50%?) but retroactive tax on the past four years of bonuses above a certain amount ($1 million?) paid out by any financial institution that receives a bailout. That is, spread the net wider to catch the real culprits, and use tax policy to change incentives in the financial industry forever...
...During the few years he spent at the Law School, Goodman encouraged study on national human rights institutions and on the relationship between medical professionals and human rights, said Mindy J. Roseman, academic director of the Human Rights Program. “When he came, he had a certain vision for the program that we worked together to implement,” she said. Goodman’s departure marks one of the rare instances of tenured professors leaving the Law School in recent years—the hiring frenzy in the past five years has seen Harvard poach more...
Somewhere, in a land known among common folk as “the Quad,” there is a House called Cabot. Trouble is, no one’s quite certain of where that fabled complex lies, and few other than its mostly anonymous residents have actually been there...