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...recently as five years ago, this ability - plus a native braininess and a healthy dose of opportunism - had earned her a regular seat at soirées in the Washington-New York City-Los Angeles triad, as well as a modest media profile. She was once referred to as "the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus." (Watch an interview with Huffington...
...Lerer and viral-marketing guru Jonah Peretti, became the 15th most popular news site, just below the Washington Post's and above the BBC's. It garnered 8.9 million unique users that month, according to Nielsen - more than double what it attracted a year ago. It gets a million-plus comments from readers a month. A business newswire recently valued the site at more than $90 million. Only one independently held online-content company (Nick Denton's Gawker properties) is worth more...
...head of a small organization in London that runs youth programs in eight countries, mostly in Africa. (He did not want to be named for fear of angering donors.) Says Hildy Simmons, who runs a Wall Street philanthropic-advisory service: "There is no new money going into corporate programs, plus whatever monies there were are diminishing...
...those people are sleeping with, etc.), Winthrop is the place to do it. Almost all sophomores live in miniscule doubles, and residents are sometimes forced to squeeze into double bedrooms even during their senior year. But with common rooms in every suite, Winthrop lodging is ideal for forced socialization. Plus, humans bond over trauma, and if murdering a six-inch cockroach in your bedroom isn’t trauma, I don’t know what is. Um…at least you have a river view...
...During her two-plus decades in Minnesota, Olson revealed little about her past but made no attempt to alter her appearance. She threw lavish parties, became a noted social activist, and even appeared in local productions of Shakespeare. But her past lurked beneath the veneer of normalcy: during the 1990s, the FBI began to close in, and Olson began attempting to contact authorities through a San Francisco reporter to discuss terms of surrender. In 1999, after the TV show America's Most Wanted profiled Soliah on the 25th anniversary of the California bank shooting, she was pulled over by police...