Sunday news orgy
Jul. 27th, 2003 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenkSlate has an article on the congressional intelligence committees' 900-page report on 9/11. The main point of the article is that many of the recommendations on how to 'fix' things are tangential or irrelevent to the actual problem - which was that counterterrorism wasn't a high priority for the FBI, NSA or CIA.
A Times article on the importance of good business writing reminds me of many things I learned by trial & error - and why my boss used to have me edit certain reports to upper management...
The business section also has a story on the folks who are putting out the Home Economiser newsletter, which positions itself as the successor to The Tightwad Gazette.
The sunday magazine fronts the Tango skinny-car.
The NYT runs a sampling of business courses about Wal-Mart. This and the accompanying article remind me that yes, business is interesting - and no, I don't think business school would be interesting.
Another NYT business piece is on who pays for college when parents are divorced, and how divorced parents can be legally required to pay for college - unlike married parents. Considering how many of my friends, acquaintences and cousins completely *wasted* the money their parents paid for room, board, and tuition, I don't see why any parent should *have* to write checks for college. (As a side note, it was interesting how many of those same students got much better grades when *they* were paying for their own schooling...)
Also in college notes, some prestigious colleges will no longer treat house equity as a liquid asset...
The Personal Shopper column (with slide show) hits on cooling techniques. Mister Fan, from Brookstone, sprays water as well as creating a wind; a 'desktop air conditioner'; a desktop tower fan; ceiling fan; and, of course, an ice crusher & iced tea maker.
Europe is considering legislation to outlaw sexual discrimination in areas like television programming, advertising, insurance premiums, taxation, newspaper content and education.
The US is deploying troops to the Liberian Coast. Afghanistan, Iraq, now Liberia ... whatever happened to Candidate Bush's contention that the US should bring its troops home and stop with trying to run the rest of the world?
Jesse wants to go out for dinner, so I'm stopping for a while...
A Times article on the importance of good business writing reminds me of many things I learned by trial & error - and why my boss used to have me edit certain reports to upper management...
The business section also has a story on the folks who are putting out the Home Economiser newsletter, which positions itself as the successor to The Tightwad Gazette.
The sunday magazine fronts the Tango skinny-car.
The NYT runs a sampling of business courses about Wal-Mart. This and the accompanying article remind me that yes, business is interesting - and no, I don't think business school would be interesting.
Another NYT business piece is on who pays for college when parents are divorced, and how divorced parents can be legally required to pay for college - unlike married parents. Considering how many of my friends, acquaintences and cousins completely *wasted* the money their parents paid for room, board, and tuition, I don't see why any parent should *have* to write checks for college. (As a side note, it was interesting how many of those same students got much better grades when *they* were paying for their own schooling...)
Also in college notes, some prestigious colleges will no longer treat house equity as a liquid asset...
The Personal Shopper column (with slide show) hits on cooling techniques. Mister Fan, from Brookstone, sprays water as well as creating a wind; a 'desktop air conditioner'; a desktop tower fan; ceiling fan; and, of course, an ice crusher & iced tea maker.
Europe is considering legislation to outlaw sexual discrimination in areas like television programming, advertising, insurance premiums, taxation, newspaper content and education.
The US is deploying troops to the Liberian Coast. Afghanistan, Iraq, now Liberia ... whatever happened to Candidate Bush's contention that the US should bring its troops home and stop with trying to run the rest of the world?
Jesse wants to go out for dinner, so I'm stopping for a while...
