These are my links for April 19th through April 20th:
- Debt Settlers Offer Promises but Little Help – NYTimes.com – More often, they say, a settlement company collects a large fee, often 15 percent of the total debt, and accomplishes little or nothing on the consumer’s behalf.
- Preoccupations – Is This the Time to Chase a Career Dream? – NYTimes.com – This interest in what makes people tick, and curiosity about what keeps them from realizing their dreams, drove me to become a business coach 13 years ago. I never tire of hearing people’s stories, or of learning ways to help the creatively oppressed come alive. – I WORKED WITH A MAN WHO TOLD ME TO "FIND WHAT I LOVE TO DO, THEN FIND A WAY TO MAKE MONEY AT IT." HE LOVED LIFE AND HIS WORK.
- Sri Lanka Gives Rebels 24 Hours to Surrender – NYTimes.com – The government issued the ultimatum, giving the Tamil Tiger rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran and his fighters 24 hours starting Monday at noon to surrender before the military launches a final assault aimed at crushing the insurgents and ending the island nation's 25-year civil war. – SUN TZU WOULD SAY SURRENDER UNDER THE TERM TO ALLOW YOU TO LIVE. THEN LET IT FESTER AND START A NEW WAR IN A FEW YEARS
- Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects – NYTimes.com – The C.I.A. officers used waterboarding at least 83 times in August 2002 against Abu Zubaydah, according to a 2005 Justice Department legal memorandum. Abu Zubaydah has been described as a Qaeda operative. – ONCE WOULD BE ENOUGH FOR ME
- Global Stocks Rally May Falter, State Street Says (Update2) – Bloomberg.com – “We’re likely to see a pullback in stock markets as earnings disappoint,” said George Hoguet, global investment strategist at Boston-based State Street Global Advisors, which oversees $1.4 trillion. “We are undergoing a severe shock and the global economy will take several quarters to get back to trend growth.” – WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY DONT?
- Bill Miller Not Dead Yet as Value Funds Bury Quants (Update1) – Bloomberg.com – “Not in a million years would we have expected this gyration to be as vicious and enduring as it has been,” Steven Solmonson, the head of Park Place Capital Ltd., a hedge fund that oversees $150 million, said in an interview from New York. “The quants got whipsawed badly.”
- Go4Go.net – Go for it! – Another Go site.
