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• Colleges Paying the Price for Expensive Facilities

  
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  IFRAME Embed for Youtube By now everyone has heard the statistic that American students and graduates owe more than $1 trillion on student loans. But while everyone knows what these students did with their loans, it’s far less clear what the colleges are doing with all this money. In his new book  College ...
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• US Citizens on Disability Overtake Greek Population

  
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  The US disability program has come under scrutiny following some high-profile reports on large-scale abuses of the system. As Jim Quinn’s  The Burning Platform  reports  (via  Zerohedge )  the number of people living on disability benefits in the United States is now greater than the total population of ...
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• Via Meadia Index of Cities and States: Reader Input Requested

  
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  Following last week’s rankings from the US Chamber of Commerce , another list is out ranking the “Best and Worst States for Business” in 2013, this time assembled by Chief Executive magazine . Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Texas is #1 and California #50, with many red states filling the top spots and blue ...
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• Alonso takes heroic win in Spain

  
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• Bloomberg, the Internet, and Trust

  
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  We’ve just begun to see the fallout from Bloombgerg LP that, in the word of CEO Dan Doctoroff, “Bloomberg News reporters had access to limited customer relationship management data through their use of the Bloomberg terminal.” In blunter words, Bloomberg reporters were using their access to terminal log ...
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• Top 10 Highest-Grossing Filipino Movies of All Time – As of May 2013

  
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  Check out the 10 biggest Pinoy films of all time in terms of ticket sales or box office gross as of May 7, 2013. “Sisterakas” still holds the record for being the highest-grossing Filipino movie of all time by virtue of its total box office gross of P391 million. “It Takes a Man and a Woman” failed to ...
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• ‘It Takes a Man and a Woman’ Rakes P371-M in 6 Weeks

  
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  The rom-com movie “It Takes a Man and a Woman” starring Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz had a 6-week gross of P371 million according to third party tabulator Box Office Mojo. In the last two weeks, “It Takes a Man and a Woman” slowed down at the box office because almost all theaters gave ...
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• Springtime for Hitler… In Dusseldorf? With Wagner?

  
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  IFRAME Embed for Youtube Last Saturday the Düsseldorf opera house opened a new version of  Tannhäuser. But this wasn’t any old version of the classic Wagner opera: the director transposed its setting from the Middle Ages to 1940s Germany. The Nazi-themed version, according to The Guardian , contained ...
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• Is Russia Kicking Dirt in John Kerry’s Face?

  
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  Here’s an early sign of how successful the Obama administration’s plan to get Russia on board vis-à-vis Syria: Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, told the press today that Moscow will send air defense missiles to Syria after all. Moscow plans to deliver already contracted ground-to-air missile ...
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• Live chat: Becoming a nurse and what it takes to get a bachelors or masters degree

  
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  William M. Stewart, MBA, assistant vice president for Institutional Advancement, and Rosemary Pascone, senior academic advisor, School of Nursing, both of Excelsior College in Albany, NY, will take your questions on obtaining a bachelor or masters degree in nursing. Live chat: Becoming a nurse and what it takes to get ...
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• Books, Flour, and Other Developments

  
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  Today’s Gratitude theme is books.  I do love a book, and I am very grateful for the knowledge and adventures they contain.  This is the smallest and tidiest of my seven bookshelves.  Yes, seven.  I said I loved books. And this is a 25 pound bag of flour, because we are on the letter F. I should be able to ...
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• Fed Chief Warns Homebuyers: Time To Lock In Those Low Rates

  
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  Central bankers make it their business to be delphic most of the time, but Ben Bernanke’s recent remarks drive us toward two conclusions. “In light of the current low interest rate environment, we are watching particularly closely for instances of ‘reaching for yield’ and other forms of excessive ...
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• Hollande’s France: About to Become the New Mexico?

  
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  One of the constants of modern European history is that compared to the Germans, the Italians and the Brits, the French have stayed put. Since the French Revolution, the French have mostly stayed home. Emigration has just not been the French way. That may be changing. London is already full of talented young French ...
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• NYT: Uh Oh, Benghazi Might Actually Be A Scandal

  
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    With the New York Times now running a front page story on what might be deliberately false statements made by the White House about the Benghazi emails, the scandal has entered a new stage. Benghazi isn’t about a few right wing press activists tooting their horns anymore; much against its inclinations, ...
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• New York Tests Limits of Fiscal Folly

  
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  Soaring employee costs and unfunded pensions in New York State are forcing hundreds of municipalities to choose between cutting back on services and postponing pension payments. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority have opted for the latter. A 2010 law supported by Governor Andrew Cuomo allows employers to divert money ...
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• 7 Quick Takes Friday–May 10, 2013

  
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    1. We celebrated Mother’s Day early by going out to eat at Menasha Grill!! Legit Cajun Food!! 2. The romance of doing laundry at the laundromat is wearing off. I’m ready for a washer and dryer. But, we need to get the electrical done first because we don’t have the right kind of plug for a new dryer. ...
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• Seven Quick Takes: Tall Grass Edition

  
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  1. The rain is delicious after last years drought. It seems like a little miracle to see how fresh and green everything is. I bet I have the finest crop of creeping charlie in the neighborhood at the moment. Could I make, like, creeping charlie eau de vie? Sell it at the farmers market, perhaps, in fancy glass ...
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• Tone-Deaf State Department Inflames Gun Owners’ Fears

  
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  Last weekend we wrote about the first fully 3-D printed gun, noting that it pointed to a whole generation of up-and-coming tech that will disrupt existing industries and challenge economic and political monopolies. Now it appears that the State Department has ordered Defense Distributed, which designed the gun, to ...
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• Denver Loses Big on Wall Street

  
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  Yet another city is suffering the consequences of hitting up the Wall Street casino to fund its pension system.  Bloomberg reports that Denver’s public school system has paid a total of $215.6 million to Wall Street banks related to swaps and bond sales made since 2008—equal to two-thirds of total teaching ...
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• Whoever Wins, Pakistan Is Losing

  
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  The victor in tomorrow’s elections in Pakistan will inherit a national economy in tatters. There are steep economic challenges ahead—so steep, in fact, that the first stop for Pakistan’s new government will probably be the offices of the IMF, where officials will go to seek a loan to keep the government ...
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