kristen | Shared With: Everyone - 12 days ago | business, news, poverty, politics
Amen, Brother Bono.
Quoted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. financial crisis making global waves is no excuse for governments and companies to walk away from helping the world's poor, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and rocker Bono said on Wednesday.
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"It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable treatable disease and hunger," the U2 lead singer told Clinton's fourth annual philanthropic summit in New York. "That's mad, that is mad."
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The Group of Eight wealthy nations vowed in 2005 to raise annual aid levels $50 billion by 2010, $25 billion of which was to go to Africa. But under current spending plans, the G8 will fall $40 billion short, according to a June report by the Africa Progress Panel set up to monitor implementation.
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 30 2008 | news, business, weird
Wow ... I can be a sugar mama in 2 years? I love that a 35 year old is now an "older woman". Now I just have to get some liquid assets or a nice fatty divorce settlement.
Quoted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wanted: rich older women interested in hot younger guys. Applicants must be over 35, earn at least $500,000 a year or have a minimum of $4 million in liquid assets, entrusted assets or divorce settlement.
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 31 2007 | music, business, news
This is ridiculous. Next they are going to tell us that when you buy a cd, you have to listen to it by yourself or you could be prosecuted for sharing.
Quoted: Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.
The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings.
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 31 2007 | business, news
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - May 08 2007 | news, business, humor
Haha - Comedy Central as an example for news reporting. What is this world coming to?
Quoted: Craig Newmark might not be the most obvious choice for a speaker at a conference of newspaper publishers, considering that his Web site Craigslist is often seen as a rival to newspapers by siphoning away lucrative classified advertising.
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kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 27 2007 | news, business, fashion
Good thing I don't have to go to the office anymore!
Quoted: A new survey showed tank tops and visible underwear are the biggest fashion faux pas on the job, according to Monster, an online job and ...
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kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 19 2007 | news, business, vacation
This is really sad. Many of us have had this discussion before but I feel that the reason behind this is that workers feel that they are penalized for actually taking vacation and missing work.
Quoted: More than half of U.S. workers fail to take all of their vacation days, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
Of the 56 percent who don't take advantage of all their allotted time, a third use half or less of their time off, according to a survey conducted for Hudson, the staffing and outsourcing arm of Hudson Highland Group, based in New York.
kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 12 2007 | business, newsEh ...
Quoted: AT&T Inc. will begin to absorb the Cingular Wireless name beginning Monday.
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