Dinocrat (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
So much for TARP and the bailout, said the market yesterday. Citigroup has gotten $25 billion in capital from the government, and has raised $75 billion in capital overall. Nonetheless, its stock has fallen 33% this week to as the shorts and credit default swap markets execute what appears to some to be [...]
The Cranky Professor (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
St. John's Chapel, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY Originally uploaded by Michael Tinkler . Here's a graphic demonstration of the join between the 1860s Hobart chapel and the 1960s Hobart chapel - see the solid sheet of snow to the left of the picture? That's the 1960s roof - better insulated and, hence, snow-covered. The older roof, less well insulated, shows a great patter of its own....
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
FLANDERS, N.J., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- AERC.com, Inc. (AERC Recycling Solutions) is very pleased to see the national attention given to electronics recycling this past Sunday on the popular news program, 60 Minutes, a CBS production. The segment was dedicated to improper recycling and reinforced the importance of choosing a reputable recycler. (Logo: ) AERC has worked diligently to uphold best...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
Boeing Machinists voted today on a new offer from the company.
Swimming World Magazine News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
GENEVA, New York, October 30. WILLIAM Smith College Director of Athletics Deb Steward recently announced the appointment of Kirsten Burrall to serve as an assistant coach for the Heron swimming and di...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Names matter. That's why the former Primitive Plant Garden at the San Francisco Botanical Garden is now the Ancient Plant Garden. Nan Arens, professor of geoscience at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York and adviser for the garden's renovation,...
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
By David Lambert - Timeless Media Group is preparing a January 6th DVD release of Laredo - Season 2, Part 2. The three-disc set with 13 episodes will run 650 minutes long and cost $34.98 SRP. Our thanks... (more)
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
William Smith, an online bookseller and blogger at Hang Fire Books, acquired a stack of old Sexology magazines. Sexology was one of publisher Hugo Gernsback's many titles (his most famous being Amazing Stories). Here's an illustration using obelisks to compare the difference between the "auto-erotic act" and the "normal marital act." You can easily see--through the dramatic difference in "the height...
notcoming.com | Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
31 Days of Horror – It’s as if the creative minds at work here wanted to tell the tale of a young vampire growing up, but couldn’t figure out how to do it. So they decided to fill up their film with William Smith making out with loose college women, brooding over how much he hates his father, and hardly ever reminding us that he is a vampire .
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
Police have named a man who died after he was found lying on a pavement with a serious head injury.
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
Ben Evans will make his first appearance in the Heineken Cup for Calvisano on Saturday, as the Italian minnows to take on Biarritz.
The 11 Plus Exam Blog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
I have in my possession a 1901 copy of `A FIRST LATIN COURSE’ (Thirty-Eighth Edition) by the late Sir William Smith. The book is a little battered now but it carries the name `Aubrey E Carr’. It is pleasant to think of grammar school children over many years learning Latin. I wonder which school `Aubrey E Carr’ attended. Did a deep seated love of the language evolve? Did `Aubrey E Carr’ every use anything...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Theater reviews: "The Three Musketeers" is as splashy as a Hollywood movie, and just as subtle. "God's Ear" is a graceful dream play of grief.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Theater review by Misha Berson: Seattle Repertory Theatre stages a production of "The Three Musketeers," Alexandre Dumas' classic action novel, in an adaptation by Broadway playwright Ken Ludwig.
Seamheads (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
“My students will slog through the toughest micro-economic theorem if I teach it in terms of baseball economics,” says the chair of the economics department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, JoBeth Mertens. Professor Mertens models the business of baseball as a unique hook for the economically curious and she is having great success doing it. Her syllabus includes books by Andrew Zimbalist and...
