Front-page pitch, role models:
"Top of Boston’s ad world a male bastion no longer" by Shirley Leung | Globe Staff April 02, 2014
Women now run the four biggest advertising firms in town....
Together they oversee thousands of employees, hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and the marketing of household brands from Dunkin’ Donuts to JetBlue to Progressive Insurance....
It suddenly became trendy to have chicks in charge. These women, just like the guys before them, made it on talent, hard work, and a proven ability to make a lot of money for their employers....
Related: Leung's Eliti$m
It's who she works for.
Women historically have been treated differently in the workplace — especially in the male-dominated advertising world. The changes that make it possible for them to win top jobs came about only recently. It wasn’t that long ago when working women were made to feel like female characters on “Mad Men,” the AMC television series about a 1960s-era New York advertising agency that begins its final season April 13....
She put in a plug for that?!
So what about the next generation of female leaders? They’ve got us covered....
I shudder to think the thought.
The era of “ad women” may be upon us, but more can be done — like making beer ads that treat women with respect.
Related:
Yuengling makes return to a thirsty Boston market
Yuengling is a dark, easy to drink pour
Also see: Why no wine online in Mass.?
I'm tired of drinking alcohol promotion by the elite.
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Looks like women can be liars with the best of them.
More hot air:
"Critics say Senator Warren’s student loan figures off; Debate persists over calculating any US profit" by Noah Bierman | Globe Staff April 02, 2014
WASHINGTON — For months, Senator Elizabeth Warren has railed against what she calls the tens of billions of dollars the federal government is making in “profits off the backs of our students” borrowing for college, labeling them “obscene.”
Those profits are key evidence in the Massachusetts Democrat’s push to reduce student loan burdens. But they are in fact the subject of fierce debate in Washington.
Many specialists assert that in most years the government is actually losing money on the loan program. And in the handful of years where it makes a profit, it is far smaller than the figures Warren cites, her critics say.
Well, if Liz Warren is a liar then why bother with politics at all.
It’s a partisan accounting dispute over billions of dollars. Yet it’s also a fight about how much college students should be subsidized, and the level of risk the government should accept on behalf of taxpayers when it loans money.
All of a sudden that have discovered risk to taxpayers!
Never had a concern when it was TRILLIONS in BANK and BUSINESS BAILOUTS, or the war profiteering cost overruns for crap, checks to Israel, they will cut Ukraine a quick $1 billion, they have billions for seawalls and tree protection, but now all of a sudden they are going to microscopically look at student loans!
Political groups fight all the time over budget estimates in Washington. But college loan projections are particularly fraught because of results that swing wildly, depending on how the math is done. They are also a rare example where the government agency that issues the official estimates has suggested strongly that it disagrees with its own method for doing so.
To take one example, Warren cites an official estimate that the government will gain $185 billion in profits from the loan program over roughly the next decade. But the same federal agency that produced that estimate also said it’s just as likely, if not more so, that the government will lose $95 billion over that period.
“I have no idea whether Senator Warren doesn’t understand that distinction, or disagrees with it, or finds it politically convenient to point to profits being made by the government off student loans, even though they’re not real,” said Matthew Chingos, a Brookings Institution fellow.
She's a "player."
Warren insists she is using the correct figures as she hammers home the concept that the government is milking students for financial gain.
As a reader of the Globe I recognize such methods.
The interest rate for undergraduate Federal Stafford Loans — currently 3.86 percent — has been as high as 10 percent in some years.
Yeah, that was the rate they restored when they let the 3.5 rate lapse to 6.8, then rushed in with a new deal that "lowered" the rate while tying it to market interest rates that have nowhere to go but up -- and then they turned to you kids and told you how great they did for you!
They really do think you are stupid.
Warren’s latest proposal would allow students and former students to refinance old loans at current government-subsidized rates.
Her proposals go nowhere thanks to Harry Reid. Her Glass-Steagal bill is languishing in oblivion.
She proposes paying for the losses to the government by levying bigger taxes on top earners.
Good luck with that.
“It’s billionaires or students. Where do we want to make our investment?” Warren asked a Washington audience recently.
How come those kids didn't get a bailout -- or at least a chance at bankruptcy?
When you look under the hood at what drives the debate, it’s all about risk.
When Congress sets interest rates to charge student borrowers, it builds in a safety buffer to protect taxpayers against the risk of inflation and defaults.
Then put an end to the Federal Reserve!
This is di$gu$ting, folks.
Warren and other liberals want that safety buffer estimate to be small, so the government can pay for the program by charging lower interest rates. Critics contend that approach does not fully account for financial risk, increasing the odds that taxpayers will be on the hook for losses, including bad loans.
The disagreement is stoked further by a quirk of the Washington bureaucracy. A 1990 law requires that the Congressional Budget Office — the official government scorekeeper — issue estimates of government gains and losses using the more liberal risk standards that Warren prefers.
Those CBO numbers are what Warren uses to bludgeon government for reaping profits from students — even though the CBO has disparaged those estimates as not fully accounting for risk.
Look at her "bludgeon" this hulking carcass of a loving government. Just ignore all the lies they and their lip-lock media have told that led you to wars that got you killed or policies that left you looted.
Warren cites support from a former CBO director and the left-leaning Center for American Progress, which produced a report showing that the government method has been more accurate over time than alternatives.
“There aren’t any other government numbers,” Warren said in an interview. “Of course, the estimate of future government profits is an estimate. But that should not be used to deflect attention from a big and growing problem.”
That's what this article is meant to do: muddy the waters!
Americans’ $1.2 trillion combined student debt burden now surpasses cumulative credit card debt and is second only to mortgage debt.
Holy $hit! And the jobs are gone!
The average debt for a recent college graduate who takes out a loan is about $26,000, according to several studies. The combined average for graduate students is now about $57,600.
And the rate of students defaulting within two years of leaving school has been creeping above 9 percent since the recession, though it is still well below the two-year rate in the early 1990s, when it surpassed 20 percent in some years. Over the lifetime of an undergraduate loan, close to 20 percent of students are predicted to default.
Even Warren’s critics concede that Congress’ history of setting loans has been messy and, at times, arbitrary. For example, both sides agreed the government was in fact making a profit on loans issued in 2011, 2012, and 2013, though they disagreed on the size of the profit.
Then what is the argument about?
Under the official method, the profit is projected at more than $36 billion in 2013, compared with $5.5 billion under the method that accounts for more risk. That’s out of a total of $106 billion loaned out in 2013.
The accounting spat underlying the policy has become highly partisan, given the struggle between liberals and conservatives over the role and cost of government programs.
Pfft!
I'm sick of that word being deployed by the propaganda pre$$ to deceive and distort.
House Republicans passed a bill in 2012, largely along party lines, to switch to a so-called fair value accounting method favored by many economists — the same method required for banks. But the bill died in the Democratic-run Senate.
Critics say they agree with Warren that the government should not be making a profit; they just disagree on how to define that.
“What [Warren and other progressives are] doing here is saying, ‘Hey CBO, tell me how much these loans cost. And by the way, when you do your estimate, make sure you do it this way,’ ” said Jason Delisle, director of the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank.
Warren acknowledged it will take decades to determine the actual impact of loans made in recent years, but insisted student debt is an urgent problem that is hampering economic growth and preventing young people from making investments in their futures.
They are being left behind.
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Related:
"Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat who is exploring options for additional legislation to increase federal research funding, said the battle between the haves and have nots is a consequence of “squeezing the NIH too hard.” “It shouldn’t be a part of the conversation, this idea of pitting two groups against each other,” Warren said. “Our focus should be on increasing the investment in scientific research, not on how best to divide up a shrinking pot.”
Here's how:
"The deal buoyed Wall Street investors. Guggenheim Partners, a financial services firm, concluded that as a result overall Pentagon spending will remain relatively the same for the next several years before it begins to grow once again, at about 2.5 percent per year."
No $hrinkage there!
But Warren’s wish is a tough sell in the current partisan environment, when a gridlocked Congress — particularly a spending-averse House — is not on track to boost NIH funding in any significant way. Lawmakers who support spreading the wealth argue that they are just trying to level the playing field, and the regional fights are layered atop another effort to help the little guys. In a new threat to big labs, such as those in Boston."
At least Liz has tits:
"Doctors may have oversold the benefits of mammography and underplayed its risks. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital concluded that the lifesaving benefits of mammograms are smaller than researchers previously thought and the harms — including repeat screenings and biopsies for findings that turn out not to be cancer — are greater."
And who benefited?
Related: More questions on value of mammograms
She cut them off over that?
Then there is the lower part of the anatomy:
"Nonprofit boards should learn from Berlowitz scandal" April 02, 2014
After the Globe published an expose last year about American Academy of Arts and Sciences head Leslie C. Berlowitz,
the academy rushed to her defense. A spokesman insisted that evidence
that she’d lied about her academic credentials and gamed the system to
inflate her own salary at the prestigious Cambridge nonprofit “do not
belong in the public domain and, frankly, smack of sexism.”
It's so funny to see a lying war-promoter and agenda-pusher use that word.
Now,
an internal report issued by the academy
after its own months-long investigation more than confirms the charges
against Berlowitz, who stepped down last summer. The report, released
Monday, showed how vulnerable a small nonprofit like the academy — and
hundreds of others across the state — can be to a mischievous leader.
Now she just mi$chievous.
And as such, the investigation provides a cautionary example. If
anything belongs in the public domain, it’s the story of how Berlowitz
boosted her salary by nearly $2.2 million during her tenure.
Indeed, the report ought to be required reading for nonprofit board
members, who are often volunteers and may not be on the lookout for bad
actors, just as the academy’s former board apparently was not.
A bad actor (snort).
It's the entire AmeriKan $y$tem that has been inculcated and indoctrinated with wealth and Zionist perversions that has done this. When the money junkies have infected the echelons of ejewkhazion, it's over.In
outlining how Berlowitz inflated her pay, and intimidated staff members
who might have thwarted her, the report provided a case study in how
safeguards can break down.
Berlowitz’s abrasive management style was common knowledge for years,
and the academy’s former board may have been negligent in allowing her
to remain in charge for so long.
Now it was all common knowledge for years and allowed to continue!
But if the new report sounds a warning
that helps other nonprofits improve their governance, the academy will
have performed a public service.
Oh, it's all a learning opportunity, right. Nothing really wrong with the in$titutions or our overlords.
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Related: No Belly Laugh For Berlowitz
Do I look like I'm laughing?
At least women are against war:
"Strong enough to stand up to genocide?" by Farah Stockman | Globe Staff April 02, 2014
Thierry Cruvellier’s first book “Court of Remorse” chronicled the Rwandan trials.
Related: French Briefs
Then he went on to become the world’s most dedicated genocide trial junkie. He’s covered more trials over more years in more countries than any journalist I know of. From Rwanda and The Hague, to Sierra Leone and, finally, Cambodia.
Related: Cambodia's Number Comes Up
After every trial, he asked the question: Who is this expensive international justice for? The peasant farmers who give their testimonies, only to return home to poverty and meals less delicious than what the killers eat in UN jails? Was it for the “international community,” which needed absolution for its failure to stop the killings? Or for killers to get one last shot at forgiveness?
Perhaps, at the end of the day, it’s for history. We bear witness and memorize the patterns so that we can recognize them when we see them again.
Somehow, the tiniest details matter....
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I feel sorry for Farah, but I don't want to backtrack and Remynisce about lost love.
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
"Cambodia repatriates 3 possible US MIA remains" by SOPHENG CHEANG | Associated Press April 03, 2014
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A ceremony was held in Cambodia on Wednesday to repatriate what are believed to be the remains of three American servicemen who went missing in action more than 40 years ago during the Vietnam War.
The remains, in three white coffins draped with US flags, were hoisted Wednesday into a C-17 military cargo plane for transport to Hawaii, where they will undergo DNA testing to try to confirm their identities....
Some 90 Americans were listed as missing in action in Cambodia from the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975, but the remains of only 37 have been recovered and identified....
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Brown no longer at Nixon Peabody law firm, officials say
He's hunting Shaheen in New Hampshire.
Domestic violence laws are not applied equally
I have to tell you, anecdotally, that my friends sure where hot about Remy being enabled all the way by the $y$tem and even Remdog (or is it dawg, and why am I wasting time wondering about it?). Questioning whether he should be on the telecast and all outraged. In my mind it is now another tragic example of the complete failure of all AmeriKan in$titutions. It's a rotting and di$ea$ed hulk of a carca$$ now because of those operating the controls. Imagery and illusion trumps unarguable facts and reality. It's just the way it is in the surreal pri$m through which the world is presented to me.
House bill closes loopholes in domestic violence cases
Okay, Globe, if you $ay $o.
2d suit filed challenging new Texas abortion law
I put that at the bottom of the post because we all know women are to be defined at bottom by their view on abortion.
Now about all those women and their relatives that are killed in those drone missiles strikes protecting key geographic resource links and providing a power projection point, 'er, uh, I mean, protecting women.... maybe you could adopt an orphan and raise him as a Muslim, kind American?
