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    • shut up, college

      Harvard Needs a Bailout!

      According to financially troubled magazine US News & World Report, the best college in the world is financially troubled Harvard, whose endowment has "suffered investment losses of at least 22% in the first four months of the school's fiscal year," according to the Wall Street Journal. Turns out all those colleges investing in real estate and private equity and commodities was only a brilliant idea for like ten years. This is a loss of $8 billion! So now the endowment is only like $29 billion. Is the Ivy League too big to fail? More »

      2:20 PM on Thu Dec 4 2008
      By Pareene
      2,434 views, 34 comments

      Most discussed partyatthemoontower: I never understood the stuffwhitepeoplelike entry on the Ivy League until I started reading Gawker. more »

    • Champions On The Field And Off A hedge fund founded by three retired football players (including Joe Montana) is shutting down because of poor performance. Strange, because that's just not something you would see coming. You would think a hedge fund founded by retired football players would do really well. [NYP]

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    • struggling writers

      Arianna Calls on Jobless To Enrich Her

      Arianna Huffington had some good advice for aspiring bloggers on the Daily Show tonight — blog your passion, go with your first impression — but her most important technique was communicated only implicitly, by way of example: Promote the hell out of yourself. From a brief guest stint on the Comedy Central show, Huffington gleaned exclusive backstage video for her own site, negotiations to have host Jon Stewart blog for her exclusively, a big plug for her "Complete Guide To Blogging" book and a televised recruiting call for free writers for her "blogging the meltdown" project. More »

      12:52 AM on Thu Dec 4 2008
      By Ryan Tate
      2,002 views, 23 comments

      Most discussed belltolls: Where in Holy Hell will they find free writers? more »

    • The rich

      How To Remain A Vapid Shopaholic In Somber Times

      Oh, heavens: Barack Obama's been elected, the economy imploded and suddenly it' s no longer chic to be a superficial consumerist idiot! But how to cope if that's all you've ever known?? We were going on three decades of nearly uninterrupted insane boomtime for the rich, after all, and change is difficult. Fake it hard, advises the kept lady's favorite well-connected fashiongay, Barney's creative director Simon Doonan, in this morning's Observer: More »

      6:46 AM on Wed Dec 3 2008
      By Ryan Tate
      4,787 views, 32 comments

      Most discussed Private Hangnail: I'm just sending the illegal immigrants I employ to purchase my luxury goods. If they get the wrong things, I more »

    • rumormonger

      Three Hundred Layoffs At MTV Thursday?

      Chatter about big layoffs at Viacom and its MTV unit have been in the air for weeks, with firings at the latter recently expected Wednesday or Thursday of this week. Hell, the bloodletting may already have begun. But the latest gossip says the worst is yet to come: A gobsmacking 300 people coast to coast let go by the end of the week, one tipster claims. Higher level staff supposedly get their briefings Wednesday. It will be interesting to hear whether the company takes this opportunity to visit vengeance on the mistreated permalancers who embarrassed the company so badly last winter. We're ready to listen!

      2:57 AM on Wed Dec 3 2008
      By Ryan Tate
      7,096 views, 27 comments

      Most discussed paige2two: video killed the radio star. more »

    • The panic of '08

      Jewish Scapegoating Spread By Opponents Of Jewish Scapegoating

      A nasty little internet troll may recently have sent you an email with the subject line, " 'Jews Have Ruined Our Country.'" But the message didn't come from an anti-semite; it came from the Anti-Defamation League, which is trying to prevent Jews from being blamed for the financial crisis, by spreading blame for the financial crisis to Jews. The idea, of course, is to drum up preemptive outrage among recipients of the mass email by quoting some bigots. Trouble is, the inflammatory subject line is pretty much all they got. More »

      11:43 PM on Tue Dec 2 2008
      By Ryan Tate
      2,804 views, 44 comments

      Most discussed Lucky in Love: I have a chinese american friend named Chris Jew who has no jewish heritage whatsover. He told me that a lot more »

    • dirty tricks

      Observer At Center Of Exciting Criminal Conspiracy, Maybe!

      Did you know the Observer is subsidized by an illicit slush fund? It shamefully is, according to a lawsuit filed by the former president of one of the Kushner Companies. When developer Charles Kushner bought a $1.8 billion office tower, he routed $18 million back to himself as commission on the mortgage, then allegedly siphoned $5 million off that for son Jared's cash-bleeding weekly newspaper. More »

      4:51 AM on Tue Dec 2 2008
      By Ryan Tate
      969 views, 5 comments

      Most discussed SarahHeartburn: 666 Fifth Avenue, darling. more »

    • the panic of '08

      Ailing Time Can't Even Sell Out Right

      "By the time the [Time Style & Design] issue hit newsstands in late November, reports suggested people were not buying much of anything, much less the $36,000 cellphone, $1,000 skin cream or Fendi Persian lamb jacket 'misted with gold particles' featured in the issue." [Times]

      5:33 AM on Mon Dec 1 2008
      By Ryan Tate
      883 views, 14 comments

      Most discussed oyvehisyou: "Buying all the items listed in the luxury-themed winter issue of Time Style & Design would cost more than $51 more »

    • Branding

      Obama Picks His Catchphrase: 'A New Beginning'

      Did you happen to catch Barack Obama's weekly camboy YouTube this Thanksgiving? Earnest and adorable as ever, the Office of the President Elect was unsubtle in its marketing; the word "new" appeared seven times in its 600-word speech on the economy, including two prominent instances of what appears to be the Obama administration's new catchphrase: "New Beginning." It looks like we have the much-awaited replacement term for "stimulus," "bailout" and "recovery package," all of which are despised by voters. More »

      6:11 PM on Sun Nov 30 2008
      By Ryan Tate
      3,132 views, 60 comments

      Most discussed Final - should have been the first Black President.: New Beginnings? For 25 billion I better get a Happy Ending. more »

    • celebrity science

      How To Lose Weight Like Horatio Sanz

      Have any excess weight? Might you after the holidays? It's getting easier to follow in the increasingly shallow footsteps of Horatio Sanz, the former Saturday Night Live castmember who told New York he'd lost about 100 pounds. "I've been eating better," he told the magazine. And you can too! Publishing bosses are curtailing expense-account lunch options, with one (Random House) going so far as to issue tipping and venue guidelines. If that doesn't cut it you might try, you know, exercise. For motivation, there's always this blog, put out by an Equinox trainer who supposedly "all the Conde [Nast] girls live for," according to one magazine-industry source. Recent more-than-a-little-obsessive entires dealt with cardio workout times (you never need to exceed an hour!) and the entirely natural phenomenon of wanting to sit on your ass rather than working out. More »

      3:30 PM on Sat Nov 29 2008
      By Ryan Tate
      7,245 views, 55 comments

      Most discussed not a sailor boy: awwww, he lost all his funny. more »

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