…it doesn’t matter how much you have.
Case in point: Almost 80% of NFL players near bankruptcy two years after they retire.
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When you don’t know how to handle money
Sunday, March 21st, 2010Laws_of_Armed_Conflict.PPT
Thursday, February 25th, 2010The pair of war crime prosecutors who indicted Charles Taylor back in 2003 have created a new firm, CW Group, that offered legal services to Guinea’s military regime. They made a 14-slide PowerPoint presentation, apparently aimed at educating the military’s officers and soldiers about the laws governing warfare (and maybe even get them to not violate them so egregiously?) [FP]
I guess if you’re going to have a military, you should teach your soldiers about the rules of war, somehow… But PowerPoint? Really?
One imagines that in the original .ppt version, these bullet points (pun intended?) “Civilians!” “Medical personnel!” and “Prisoners!” would fly in from the right side of the slide, with that car-zooming-and-screeching-to-halt sound effect.
Perhaps the excessive use of PowerPoint is the real war crime here…
The 2010 speakers
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Commencement: Former Justice David Souter.
Class Day: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. (General feeling in our circles: “Several seniors expressed ambivalence about the choice—a sentiment that may stem from a lack of recognition of Amanpour’s name among some individuals.” Let’s hope her speech is a good one.)
R.I.P. Chris Brown’s Twitter account, killer named and at large
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009CNN writes the obituary. Let us remember the short but great life of Chris Brown’s Twitter, mechanicaldummy:
Brown began using Twitter as a way to connect to his fans after he pleaded guilty and was sentenced for beating his then-girlfriend Rihanna.
Whether it was an attempt to garner favorable public relations in the wake of an image-shattering event or just a late adaptation to the microblogging craze, Brown had spent the months after the incident using his Twitter account to reach and connect with 172,366 followers.
He tweeted regularly thanking his fans for their continued support and sounding off after concerts.
It was unclear what specifically sparked Brown to delete his account, named “mechanicaldummy,” He had started the day with a normal “good morning” message to his fans.
12/14/09. NEVER FORGET.
Now they need to go back to more Tiger Woods coverage.