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...Obama's turn coming soon? "Publisher interest in a Michelle book would be enormous," says Michael Coffey, executive managing editor of Publishers Weekly. "She's a figure of interest to political people, to women, to the African-American community, to the international community." Last March, before her husband had even won the Democratic Party's nomination, the New York Observer reported that Michelle Obama had been approached by "over a dozen" publishers to write a book. Calls were going through Washington superlawyer Bob Barnett, who represented the President for Audacity. Interest has only intensified since then, but the First Lady...
...flung digital operations of the New York Times, said the Kindle has been a "surprisingly successful" platform for his newspaper. "There's not a lot of evidence right now that people view the PC as the device they want to read on," he said. "And that's interesting because the PC is a general-interest device - we had hoped to see a little bit more of an uptake on that. On the other hand, we've seen a tremendous amount of uptake on the Kindle. It just works from a user perspective...
...annual amount any insurance holder would pay, for guaranteeing the buyer of the insurance against losses on the bonds. All told, Bank of America wrote CDS contracts worth $20 million based on the debts of as many as 75 companies. Add the fees from the insurance contracts to the interest Strata was already receiving on its collateral and voila you get an annual yield for the bond of 4.93%, or more than double the actual bonds Strata held...
...fund management. The conference, which was also attended by Wellesley and Bowdoin students, included presentations from students from both organizing schools, Harvard faculty, and several individuals who work in the field of responsible investing. “It became very clear early on that there was a lot of interest in endowments, even before the economic collapse,” said conference organizer Jonathan F. Bowman ’11. The Harvard and Yale student groups that co-hosted the conference first connected through a nationwide campaign against investment in HEI Hotels and Resorts, a private equity company that buys...
...humanity. The practice seemed to complete the rebels' gradual makeover from peasant warriors fighting for a Marxist utopia to ruthless narco-terrorists. When Betancourt, a French-Colombian citizen and a cause celebre in Europe, was whisked to freedom during last July's commando raid, much of the world lost interest in the FARC. Most analysts said the group, whose membership has been halved from as many as 20,000 members a decade ago, was a spent force...