Oct 3

The new president’s job, says one Wharton professor, "will be as hard as any job any person has ever had." For the 44th president of the United States, extraordinary managerial and cognitive abilities will be needed to tackle unprecedented challenges, including wars being waged in two countries and a financial system on the verge of [...]

Oct 3

Seth Berger is founder and former CEO of AND 1, a company specializing in basketball shoes and apparel. Started by Berger and several classmates while they were students at Wharton in the early 1990s, AND 1’s original product line featured t-shirts targeted at young basketball players; the company later expanded to offer a full line [...]

Sep 28

NATIONAL Artist for Literature, activist and Martial Law detainee Bienvenido Lumbera said the present administration is worse than the dictatorial regime of Ferdinand Marcos.
“What is bad is that Ms (Gloria Macapagal) Arroyo has the cover-up of legality for what she is doing. The military is at her command and is doing its worst to suppress [...]

Sep 28

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo addresses the crowd during the police change of command Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008 at the Philippine National Police headquarters in suburban Quezon City north of Manila. (AP Photo)
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Saturday directed new Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Jesus Versoza to help bring lasting peace to conflict-torn Mindanao.
Arroyo, in her speech [...]

Sep 28

BACOLOR — A birthday gift from a grateful President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to her beloved Kabalen here.
This is exactly how it will look like when the President kick offs Saturday a long-term rehabilitation plan for this lahar-ravaged historic town with her signing of the Bacolor rehabilitation law.
The new law will initially provide P1.5 billion in development [...]

Sep 28

‘US trip is successful’

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DEPUTY presidential spokesman Anthony Golez described President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s trip to New York as “very, very successful.”
Arroyo was the fourth speaker to address the 63rd United Nations General Assembly. She also held bilateral meetings with at least 14 world leaders.
She talked on how the Philippines fared against the global hike in the prices of fuel [...]

Sep 28

Got some extra cash hanging around burning a hole in your pocket? Yeah–wrong crowd. I totally understand. If the situation ever changes there’s a new site you might as well explore, “when banks compete you win,” but in reverse! Where LendingTree lines you up with lenders, MoneyAisle matches you up [...]

Sep 28

You know what the gaming industry is missing, these days? Delicious pie.
The tasty dessert is the driving force behind The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom. Designed as a thesis project by two USC students, the game follows the titular anti-hero who uses time travel to solve increasingly complex puzzles. As the only character in the game, [...]

Sep 26

Wired kicked off NextFest press day this morning with a talk by the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Chris Anderson. The Long Tail author used his allotted 45 minutes to discuss his forthcoming sophomore book, Free, which, according to the author, is due out on Hyperion next spring–or summer, depending on whether he hits his deadline.
“You are, in [...]

Sep 26

Q: How do I get Vista to show thumbnail of the picture files in my picture folder? Right now they all show the same generic picture. Bergeron Gano, Jr.
A: If this were an older version of Windows I’d suspect that some image editing program had configured the image file types to display its own [...]