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...advertising industry is up against the largest problem it has faced since perhaps when it found a way to reach a national audience in magazines in the early 20th century. TV, cable, magazines and online properties are all attractive ways to reach consumers, but none of them is exhibiting the kind of growth that TV did in the 1960s and the Internet did from 1997 to 2006. People are spending their time on YouTube and Twitter now. Neither has any reason to recommend it as a way to reach people to sell products or services. The roadside billboard is about...
...Compounding that problem, from a businessman's point of view, is the way the Obama Administration treats Fannie and Freddie as part of the federal government. James Lockhart, the director of their new overseer, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has said they are to act as an "arm" of the Treasury Department - even though they are still, technically, for-profit, publicly traded companies. From a moratorium on foreclosures to a program to purchase and guarantee home loans for more than what the houses are worth, the agencies have taken steps that are greatly influenced by the goals of policy makers...
...perhaps precisely at these moments, when students’ expectations are dashed by long hours on the bench and problem sets on rides back from away games, that Harvard’s refusal of athletic scholarships becomes most beneficial. The attitudes behind such policies may also be increasingly necessary. In a 2006 study, sixty-two percent of Division I student-athletes reported viewing themselves more as athletes than students, despite the NCAA’s official stance that “[i]ntercollegiate athletics programs shall be maintained as a vital component of the educational program...
...According to UC representative Senan Ebrahim ’12, the UC began to focus on the problem of social space following a Town Hall meeting of various student groups, where participants expressed their frustration over the lack of gathering space for meetings and events...
...three separate ongoing cases, the Obama Justice Department has invoked the so-called "state secrets" privilege, arguing that litigation cannot go forward because it would reveal classified information, a tactic of his predecessor's that Obama had no problem criticizing during the campaign. At the same time, Obama's advisers have declined to answer questions about whether or not they will support legislation, which was once supported by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden, to give judges a greater ability to limit the use of the state-secrets privilege as a courtroom tactic. "It's disappointing...