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2011, a Year of Me-Firsts in Business — Fair Game - NYTimes.com
LIVE and learn. And well we should, given that 2011 was packed with teachable moments.
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Times Topic: Gretchen Morgenson
Some of this stuff we already knew. Like the fact that banks love the perks that come with being too big to fail. They will lobby shamelessly to hang on to their riskiest businesses and stay perilously large. No surprise, really. A heads-we-win, tails-the-taxpayers-lose model has a lot going for it, at least for executives atop these institutions. -
H.P.’s TouchPad, Some Say, Was Built on Flawed Software - NYTimes.com
The TouchPad tablet from Hewlett-Packard was one of the most closely watched new gadgets of 2011 — and quickly turned out to be the year’s biggest flop. The TouchPad, which was supposed to be a rival to Apple’s iPad, lasted just seven weeks on the market before H.P. killed it, citing weak sales.
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Unknown Knowns - Avoiding the Truth - NYTimes.com
COULD there be a single phrase that explains the woes of our time, this dismal age of political miscalculations and deceptions, of reckless and disastrous wars, of financial boom and bust and downright criminality? Maybe there is, and we owe it to Fintan O’Toole. That trenchant Irish commentator is a biographer and theater critic, and a critic also of his country’s crimes and follies, as in his gripping if horrifying book, “Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger.”
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A Hmong Generation Finds Its Voice in Writing - NYTimes.com
FRESNO, Calif. — In many ways, the preoccupations of the young writers who gather every week here over supermarket cheese and crackers are those of young people everywhere. They grapple with loneliness, the mystifying behavior of siblings, being gay, the parents who do not understand them.
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For Multitaskers, 2012 May Be a Year of Revenge - NYTimes.com
IT’S a far different work world today than it was even 10 years ago. Technology and the economy have converged to create a set of priorities and preoccupations that are unique to our times. Here are just a few workplace and employment issues that are likely to stir debate, frustration and a search for solutions this year.
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The Piano Player Confessions
I recently received a message from an accomplished piano player. Let’s call him Jeremy.
This is someone who majored in piano performance at music school, where he was one of the top two students in the major. He won state-level competitions throughout his college career.
Jeremy wrote in response to my recent article on the surprisingly relaxed lives of elite musicians. He told me that post agreed with his experience. -
From 6 Economists, 6 Ways to Face 2012 — Economic View - NYTimes.com
BELIEVE it or not, times are getting better.
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Editorial: As Good as It Gets? (January 1, 2012)
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Some homebuilding picked up, but no fix emerged for the housing crisis.
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Strikers in Europe protested pension reforms.
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The Fed, led by Ben Bernanke, kept interest rates at rock-bottom.
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Occupy protesters in Manhattan highlighted many workers' plight.
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Aiming to corral health costs, companies offered in-house fitness plans.
At least that’s what the dry statistics keep telling us. Industrial production, G.D.P. — the kind of figures that Washington and Wall Street sweat over — suggest that the economy is on the mend. -
Syrian activists dying to tell their story - Telegraph
During more than nine months of protest against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, it is Syria's media activists who have ensured that the outside world knows what is really going on.
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