Oct 11 2010

Tyler Clementi’s Death: A Call to Action Against Cyberbullying

What started as a smattering of Facebook status updates on my homepage soon erupted into an international news story. Tyler Clementi, a boy from my high school in Ridgewood, N.J. and a freshman at Rutgers University, committed suicide on Sept. 22. after a video of him having a private encounter with another man was streamed [...]


Sep 29 2010

Amaranth to Face Class-Action Over Collapse

A U.S. judge ordered Amaranth Advisors, a hedge fund that lost $6.4 billion through bad bets on natural gas prices, to face a class-action lawsuit over its 2006 collapse, Reuters reported. In a ruling dated on Monday, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin granted class-action status to futures traders who bought, sold or held natural gas [...]


Sep 29 2010

Amaranth to Face Class-Action Over Collapse

A U.S. judge ordered Amaranth Advisors, a hedge fund that lost $6.4 billion through bad bets on natural gas prices, to face a class-action lawsuit over its 2006 collapse, Reuters reported. In a ruling dated on Monday, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin granted class-action status to futures traders who bought, sold or held natural gas [...]


Sep 6 2010

Retiring Fed Official Considers More Bank Action

The former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, who retired last week after 40 years at the central bank, says that the economy is in “a slow slog out of a very deep hole,” and that the Fed should consider additional stimulus unless the recovery shows signs of “decent progress.” The departure of the official, [...]


Aug 5 2010

Mr. President? Ready and . . . Action!

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Jan 4 2010

Rambo Death Chart

Always liked the Rocky and Rambo series interesting pic here breaking down the kills in each of the 4 films.

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