After celebrating Thanksgiving with her father, Lindsay Lohan returned to Twitter with a quote that was retweeted by Tom Cruise earlier in the day (it was originally tweeted by a Cruise fan): “Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. Sofia~Vanilla Sky. LOVE this quote.” The quote is originally from 2001 Tom [...]
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SGX to quote ADRs of Asian companies from Oct 22
September 14th, 2010 |
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Singapore Exchange said it will quote American Depositary Receipts of 19 Asian companies, including Baidu Inc. and Suntech Power Holdings Co., on its new GlobalQuote board from Oct 22.
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Quote of the week
April 22nd, 2010 |
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I spoke to Rob Golding yesterday after he’d been listening to the marathon Fiat webcast to analysts.
Marchionne it seemed, had been enjoying himself, letting fly at analysts who disagree with him over Chrysler and very much playing the showman. The gallery lapped it up. Investors are particularly happy with the plan to split the group into separately listed auto and industrial companies, presumably because they can see greater shareholder value around the corner.
And, judging by the presentations I have seen (absolutely packed with detail), the audience would probably have appreciated a bit of pep and zing from the chief presenter.
Must admit, I did like this quote. You can see why investors like him.
“I used to think that the chemicals industry was the greatest destroyer of capital until I ran into this one. Now I suppose that it is the banks that have set a new standard for waste. But the level of arrogance in the auto industry is fantastic. There is nothing to be proud of.”
Incidentally, what’s happening to Luca di Montezemolo after he steps down as Fiat Group chairman? Word on the street is that he has political ambitions and is no admirer of Silvio Berlusconi.
We were talking about the controversial Berlusconi yesterday. Has he become a laughing stock? How’s he doing on the BY scale? BY? Boris Yeltsin. The former Russian leader with a penchant for vodka and generally inappropriate behaviour (eg not getting off aeroplanes while enjoying a post-binge snooze on state visits) seems like a reasonable yardstick in the ‘most embarrassing leader’ stakes. Anyway, Berlusconi’s probably not quite there yet, but he’s been making good progress in moving up the BY scale.
GOLDING’S TAKE: Marchionne’s gut-wrenching solution for the arrogant industry
Quote of the week
April 22nd, 2010 |
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I spoke to Rob Golding yesterday after he’d been listening to the marathon Fiat webcast to analysts.
Marchionne it seemed, had been enjoying himself, letting fly at analysts who disagree with him over Chrysler and very much playing the showman. The gallery lapped it up. Investors are particularly happy with the plan to split the group into separately listed auto and industrial companies, presumably because they can see greater shareholder value around the corner.
And, judging by the presentations I have seen (absolutely packed with detail), the audience would probably have appreciated a bit of pep and zing from the chief presenter.
Must admit, I did like this quote. You can see why investors like him.
“I used to think that the chemicals industry was the greatest destroyer of capital until I ran into this one. Now I suppose that it is the banks that have set a new standard for waste. But the level of arrogance in the auto industry is fantastic. There is nothing to be proud of.”
Incidentally, what’s happening to Luca di Montezemolo after he steps down as Fiat Group chairman? Word on the street is that he has political ambitions and is no admirer of Silvio Berlusconi.
We were talking about the controversial Berlusconi yesterday. Has he become a laughing stock? How’s he doing on the BY scale? BY? Boris Yeltsin. The former Russian leader with a penchant for vodka and generally inappropriate behaviour (eg not getting off aeroplanes while enjoying a post-binge snooze on state visits) seems like a reasonable yardstick in the ‘most embarrassing leader’ stakes. Anyway, Berlusconi’s probably not quite there yet, but he’s been making good progress in moving up the BY scale.
GOLDING’S TAKE: Marchionne’s gut-wrenching solution for the arrogant industry
Lennon’s ‘Jesus’ quote mag sold for $12713
September 18th, 2009 |
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A magazine in which John Lennon had scribbled that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus has been sold for 12,713 US dollars.
In a 17 day online auction run by RR Auction of Amherst, New Hampshire, an orthopaedic surgeon at New York’’s Mount Sinai Medical Centre made the winning bid.
The September 1966 issue of Datebook [...]
Google and Microsoft: Separated at Birth?
July 22nd, 2009 |
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With Microsoft’s Bing and Google’s Chrome OS, each company made a move that was more characteristic of the other. Are the commpanies adopting each other’s best or worst habits, and can the enterprise benefit from a Google-Microsoft morph?
– Theres a famous quote from Walt Kelly’s Pogo that goes, quot;We have met the enemy and he is us. quot;
This quote has been jumping to my mind a lot lately as Ive watched the ongoing battle between Microsoft and Google. Thats because Ive been finding it a lot harder lately to tell these two compan…
White House Plans To Use DeMint’s “Waterloo” Quote To Rally The Troops
July 20th, 2009 |
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On Friday, on a “Conservatives for Patients Rights” conference call with conservative activists dealing with health care reform, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said, as Ben Smith at Politico reported, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will b…
John Lundberg: Sarah Palin, The Anti-Poet
July 19th, 2009 |
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Watching Sarah Palin resign the other week, I remembered how frustrating it is to listen to her speak. She uses simple words, but combines them…
Meghan McCain: “Joe the Plumber — You Can Quote Me — Is A Dumbass”
July 15th, 2009 |
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In an interview with OUT magazine, Meghan McCain spoke freely on her support for gay marriage — and her dislike of some conservative mouthpieces.
Unprompted, McCain rails against the man her father’s presidential campaign touted as an Americ…
My revolutionary hour on the plinth
July 15th, 2009 |
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On Bastille Day, I dressed as Marie Antoinette and stood in Trafalgar Square for Antony Gormley’s One and Other plinth project
Full coverage of the fourth plinth
It was Bastille Day. But I never really explained that. Nor did I exactly say that I was Marie Antoinette for the duration of my hour on the plinth. I hoped it would be clear. Or perhaps I hoped it would give people watching in Trafalgar Square or online something to wonder.
There was a vast range of cupcakes given out to the mob below me, donated kindly by Hummingbird Bakery. This was a key ploy. I bribed my crowd. This company are apparently at the crumb-caked serrated edge of baking fashion but some of those strangers on the square who were offered cake for free looked as if they could not trust their good fortune.
The ride across the square in the cherry-picker was my highlight. Or rather the ride back was, when I was at last relaxed enough to enjoy it. Before you pull away from the plinth the cherry-picker’s arm extends high above the rest of the square and that was the best bit.
The worst bit was dressing in haste in the cabin to one side of the square. I had plenty of time really, but was convinced I would lace myself up wrong. I had only tried the incredible outfit on once before, a week ago, in the dressing rooms at the costumier Angels, who I must really thank, and I could not remember which bits went on first. I had huge under-bustles.
Many have pointed out that Marie Antoinette did not really say “let them eat cake” and I know it is a disputed quote, but it seems a good enough premise for eating cake. She probably said brioche, which was the fine, eggy, cakey bread the royals ate at Versailles, if she said anything at all, but it has never been clear which “great princess” Rousseau was referring to when he attributed the quote.
I held up several strange revolutionary quotes during my hour – more than 20 in all. And had to speed up towards the end as the hour of my de-plinthing approached. One other quote I used is hotly disputed. “After me the deluge”, is thought by some to have been said by Mme de Pompadour, so I gave her a credit too.
The best responses from the crowd came for the straightforward revolutionary sentiments and for the feminist ones. Nancy Mitford’s comment that housework is much more frightening than hunting is my personal favourite, but I got a good response for the quote from the sitcom Porridge – “Born free, ’til somebody caught me” – which was, strictly speaking, a lyric.
I left the rabble wanting less of me, I fear, but at least they cheered to my last revolutionary slogan, the all-inclusive “Up the workers”.
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Virginia Sanchez-Korrol: Sotomayor’s “Wise Latinas”
July 13th, 2009 |
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Informed initially by their own experiences, these Latinas galvanized efforts to effect societal change that produced results far beyond identity politics. Each could serve as a worthy role model for Latina and non-Latina professionals.
Connecting The Dots Of The Web Revolution
June 18th, 2008 |
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For several days my brain has been connecting the blogstorm over AP trying to dictate how much of their content can be quoted on the web with the “quote” that Nick Carr lifted from one of my blog posts in his Atlantic article — I finally figured out why. The problem with the AP isn’t [...]