As high school seniors across the country are hard at work polishing their college applications, let's take a look at some of the stranger questions those wacky admissions officers have asked.
Backstage in a dressing room at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, lit by bright "Hooray for Hollywood" lights along the mirrors, Alicia Keys stands.
We met when I delivered his mail, a task performed by all the interns. But I liked to think I was different: I was an eager little NYU journalism student, desperate for attention, and I chatted with all the editors as I passed their cubicles.
These days, it's not unheard of for hotels to charge $15 for a mini-bar diet Coke, $40 for access to the gym, or $45 for rush laundry service. (Alas, these are actual fees on T+L editors' receipts.) But there's good news ahead: the extra charges are expected to decrease by six percent this year as hotels and resorts compete to attract guests.
Old: If there was a mantra that defined the past era, it was Ronald Reagan's famous words: "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Investors and policymakers came to believe that "the markets, left to themselves, achieve the most efficient outcomes," says New York University finance professor Viral Acharya.
Signs that we're reaching an economic bottom are beginning to emerge: a 28% jump in the S&P 500 index since its March low, a sustained rise in oil prices, and the Fed's latest Beige Book noting "a moderation in the pace of decline." But the key question for how good things will get is: What will the American consumer do?
The Bush Pentagon tried to find loopholes in the Geneva Conventions for its "ghost detainee" program in Iraq and to delay the release of Guantanamo Bay prisoners to avoid bad press, three human rights groups contend.
Research is a major part of life for mainstream universities, with the ultimate accolade for any academic institution coming when one of its faculty is handed a Nobel prize, the latest winners of which were announced this month.
"I really loved Sarah Lawrence and NYU," says the 17-year-old actress
The U.S. financial services industry is witnessing the bursting of yet another bubble. This time, it's the industry itself.
As high school seniors across the country are hard at work polishing their college applications, let's take a look at some of the stranger questions those wacky admissions officers have asked.
Backstage in a dressing room at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, lit by bright "Hooray for Hollywood" lights along the mirrors, Alicia Keys stands.
We met when I delivered his mail, a task performed by all the interns. But I liked to think I was different: I was an eager little NYU journalism student, desperate for attention, and I chatted with all the editors as I passed their cubicles.
These days, it's not unheard of for hotels to charge $15 for a mini-bar diet Coke, $40 for access to the gym, or $45 for rush laundry service. (Alas, these are actual fees on T+L editors' receipts.) But there's good news ahead: the extra charges are expected to decrease by six percent this year as hotels and resorts compete to attract guests.
Old: If there was a mantra that defined the past era, it was Ronald Reagan's famous words: "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Investors and policymakers came to believe that "the markets, left to themselves, achieve the most efficient outcomes," says New York University finance professor Viral Acharya.
Signs that we're reaching an economic bottom are beginning to emerge: a 28% jump in the S&P 500 index since its March low, a sustained rise in oil prices, and the Fed's latest Beige Book noting "a moderation in the pace of decline." But the key question for how good things will get is: What will the American consumer do?
The Bush Pentagon tried to find loopholes in the Geneva Conventions for its "ghost detainee" program in Iraq and to delay the release of Guantanamo Bay prisoners to avoid bad press, three human rights groups contend.
Research is a major part of life for mainstream universities, with the ultimate accolade for any academic institution coming when one of its faculty is handed a Nobel prize, the latest winners of which were announced this month.
"I really loved Sarah Lawrence and NYU," says the 17-year-old actress
The U.S. financial services industry is witnessing the bursting of yet another bubble. This time, it's the industry itself.
The biggest point gain in history could be the sign of a turnaround -- or of more wild swings ahead
Now a freshman, Fergie's eldest daughter skips the dorms in favor of St. James's Palace
One enterprising freshman is using e-mail to ask strangers to kick in $25,000. And the craziest part? It's working
Your genes don't ordain heart disease. Researchers are learning more about the lifestyle factors that predict heart health, and these are in your hands.
The number danced in front of Kay Whitley's eyes. Nine thousand dollars? For a bus trip?
A large study offers the strongest evidence yet that a diet the government recommends for lowering blood pressure can save people from heart attack and stroke
Slow and steady wins the race, but a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Those dueling proverbs sum up the investing mind.
When Heidi Sadowsky quit the finance sector, she abandoned a job market on the verge of collapse for one that may be air-tight: nursing.
According to business school tradition, the route to the top involves a mid-career hiatus to take an MBA before forging ahead into the boardroom. But there is another way -- the undergraduate path.
Tuesday's bad economic news, and the sharp selloff that resulted, are the latest signs that the stock-market decline is still going on.
For years, political scientists assumed our political leanings came from the way we were raised and the company we keep. You're a screaming liberal? Must be because you were raised in a household full of screaming liberals. You're an arch conservative? Must be because of that college you went to.
Students at New York University are three weeks into the spring semester, two days past the Giants' big win, and right in the middle of the New York presidential primaries.
If you graze the Web, it certainly seems like America's 20-somethings have a loud and powerful voice when it comes to pushing presidential candidates.
The boyfriend of a 20-year-old woman found dead in a New York University apartment building was arrested and charged with murder Wednesday, the New York Police Department said.
It is a decades-old move industry cliché -- the maverick director strives to bring their personal dream to life on celluloid, while the penny-pinching, non-artistic producer counts costs and lobbies for a lowbrow box office smash.
The organic market is growing at a steady pace of nearly 20 percent annually, and that translates into organic alternatives in nearly every grocery aisle -- from snack foods to frozen meals to baked goods. "Everyone wants to be healthy and these foods convey an aura of health," says Marion Nestle, Ph.D., professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University and author of "What to Eat." Here, experts compare some of the benefits and drawbacks of going organic.
Bonds tumbled after the release of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting minutes indicated more interest rate hikes may be needed to fight inflation. The dollar slipped slightly versus the euro but rose a bit against the yen.
Wall Street edged higher in the first moments of trade Wednesday as investors mull economic worries, oil prices and wait for the latest Fed speak.
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What to ask the advisor of the university program that -- if all goes well -- will change your life.
Executive MBAs, part-time MBAs for working managers, are a major -- not to mention very expensive -- commitment.
The more than 78 million baby boomers approaching retirement face a financial landscape that offers reasons for hope, but the generations following them have reasons to worry.
Recently I had coffee with a friend who was venting. This was normal - what are friends and grande skim lattes for?
While an MBA might be seen as the standard passport to big business success, increasing numbers of young students are now looking at a more direct route to the top: undergraduate business degrees.
Clay Shirky can be counted among the lucky few who not only appear to have mastered the wired world (and the wireless one) but also get paid to decode it for the rest of us. He teaches graduate cou...
Clay Shirky can be counted among the lucky few who not only appear to have mastered the wired world (and the wireless one) but get paid to decode it for the rest of us. He teaches graduate courses in interactive telecommunications at New York University. He has a busy technology consulting practice whose clients include Nokia and the Library of Congress.
MY OFFICE FINALLY GOT ITS SUPPLY OF FLU VACCINE THIS week--later than usual but in plenty of time for flu season, which usually doesn't start until late December. Yet being offered a regular flu sh...
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The political finger-pointing that evolved in Hurricane Katrina's wake not only exposed deficiencies in the government's disaster preparedness, but put a spotlight on how and why some Bush administration officials got their jobs.
Broke stay-at-home mom starts a multimillion-dollar business. Son of a Mexican-born railroad worker goes to Harvard, makes partner at big law firm. Daughter of Vietnamese refugees invests in real e...
Even if you're more realist than optimist, the first stop on the path to wealth absolutely has to be college. People with a bachelors degree make 70 percent more than those with only a high school diploma, an advantage that adds an additional million bucks in earnings over their working lives.
The idea that anyone can make it here is so key to our national self-image it ought to be printed on the dollar bill.
Like generations of immigrants before her, Tamara Garber arrived in the United States with little more than intelligence, courage, and desire to succeed
New research conducted by Fordham and NYU professors found that 62 percent of 401(k) plans offered inadequate choices. In fact, their study says your 401(k) has such serious limitations it could ultimately cut your potential savings by as much as a third.
Two months after a flu vaccine shortage prompted rations and long lines, the U.S. government is expanding its stockpile.
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When voters in the Democratic primaries were making John Kerry their choice to run for the White House, exit polls showed their biggest concern was finding a candidate to beat President Bush.
Need the occasional unbiased ear to hear out a business notion? Will millions of ears do? According to the consulting firm Concept Marketing Group, which tracks associations nationwide, there are u...
In Sergio Leone's magnificent Western, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach are hunting for stolen gold. The treasure, they discover, is buried under a headstone in a huge...
Many students at New York University say that although they're concerned about violence in Iraq and detainee abuse in Abu Ghraib prison, the war is not the major factor shaping their choices in the 2004 presidential race.
On a mild Saturday afternoon, with derelicts catching rays all along the Bowery, a blacked-out van bearing a small trailer with Colorado plates swings into the glorious gift of a parking space in front of the Bowery Ballroom on Delancey Street.
As Republicans, Democrats and anti-Bush activists gear up for New York City's first Republican National Convention, New York University students are getting into the mix.
Editor's note: Campus Vibe is a weekly feature that provides student perspectives on the 2004 election from selected colleges across the United States. This week's contributor is Kate Meyer, the news editor at Washington Square News, the student newspaper at New York University. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of CNN, its affiliates or New York University.
We've already discussed the importance of focusing on financial matters you can control (as opposed to those you can't, like the economy). Well, there's no element of wealth building over which you...
After a year in which Americans endured a terrorist attack, layoffs, a stock market swoon and news of billion-dollar corporate swindles, we wanted to gauge the mood of affluent Americans. Are they worried? What, if anything, are they changing about their financial lives? How much is enough to feel rich? What do they think their chances are of becoming wealthy? What's the best way to do it? What does affluence mean to them, anyway?
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Like almost everyone, Naomi Solo, 62, dreads a colonoscopy. The procedure--the most effective way to screen for colon cancer and growths, called polyps, from which it can develop--involves a day of...
A former member of the Indian Parliament, Jain now runs a news and current affairs satellite TV channel that reaches 26 million homes in India, as well as 36 other Asian countries.
It was only a year ago that investors seemed willing to suspend the rules of fundamental stock analysis entirely when valuing Net stocks. Now the pendulum has swung the other way, and investors are...
Q. Do you know a website that lists the yearly returns of numerous asset classes going back as far as 1930? MARK MILLER mark.miller@exchange.aero.org
After 10 years of near 20% annualized gains in stocks, we're all feeling pretty smug about our investing prowess. O-o-o-o, we're s-o-o-o smart. As for risk...ha! That's for wusses. Real investors s...
It's been a bang-up summer for CBS: With quarterly earnings rocketing skyward and its prime-time lineup leading the Nielsens, the company seems finally to be emerging from the hole dug for it by La...
Early in The Wizard of Oz, there's a scene in which the Munchkins sing to Dorothy, "We will glorify your name/You will be a bust in the Hall of Fame!"
Two decades ago the University of Pennsylvania and New York University were struggling to build their reputations and their endowments. To help with the latter, each sought out an investment titan....
Rumor has it that hard work alone no longer guarantees a steady climb up the corporate ladder. It probably never did. Still, after a decade of corporate cost cutting and consolidation, the opportun...
Everyone who has ever read a mutual fund ad recognizes this disclaimer: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results." But investors routinely ignore those eight little words. Consider:
Spend some time watching the members of the Financial Accounting Standards Board in action, and it's hard not to think of them as heroes. Seriously. Beset by conniving earnings-manipulating corpora...
Congratulations. Junior just got accepted to Princeton. All that remains is for you, proud parent, to take up the not-so-small matter of the bill: some $121,385 over four years, thank you, not incl...
IN THE FIRST MAJOR PAPER CURRENCY REdesign since 1929, the Treasury Department created the new C-note pictured below, which could begin circulating as early as next month, to thwart counterfeiters....
Autumn is here, and the sight of yellow school buses should goad parents of thumb-sucking toddlers to start doing something about college tuition. After all, fees have been racing skyward by an ave...
Some people think the term "investigative reporter" is redundant, that all reporters should, by definition, be investigators. But in the real world of journalism, that's not the way it works. Just ...
Though Ed Brown, 54, was trained as an electrical engineer, first at Howard University and later at NYU, where he got a master's in the field, he has found his true matier engineering sizzling retu...
Ever wake up in the wee hours with your mind churning along the following lines: Your kids are now how old? Boy, college isn't that far off. Assuming an annual inflation rate of 3% or 4%, within te...
To the investor buying individual municipal bonds, the tax-free market can resemble Russia as it was famously described by Winston Churchill: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. You can...
Instead of paying up, some late filers are taking their psychiatrists along with their lawyers to explain a new malady to the IRS: the ''failure-to-file syndrome.'' The purported syndrome has emerg...
The federal student loan program is widely conceded to be a mess in need of reform, but the view around our house is that the reforms now being proposed by Bill & Co. will only make matters messier...
Fearful of being the next victims of layoffs, more U.S. workers are fighting stress. Reed Moskowitz, director of the stress disorders clinic at New York University Hospital Medical Center, reports ...
The tables on the following pages deliver basic information you need to size up 1,000 public and private four-year colleges and universities that welcome students without regard to their religious ...
That these are wonderful times for aging neoconservative hypochondriacs with modems was borne out yet again on a recent Sunday morning around 6 A.M. This was when your servant awoke with a swollen,...
Getting young managers into U.S. business schools is big business in Japan, where a stateside MBA offers not only prestige but also a peek at the inner workings of America's largest corporations vi...
The attempted bankruptcy filing by Bridgeport, Conn. this summer alerted fund investors to the risks of default in municipal bond funds. But shareholders may be less attuned to a more subtle danger...
; CASE WESTERN: All students who want one get an executive assigned as a mentor. COLUMBIA: Spent over $1 million so far on initial R&D on a new curriculum that promises to integrate globalism, team...
ROGER KATZ, Wharton MBA class of '91, personifies the idealistic, articulate, creative, technologically hip, and withal modest souls that business schools are striving so desperately to turn out. T...
We open with three gripping flashbacks: Scene One: A class in formal logic at New York University. Time: 1945. Philosopher Sidney Hook is telling the class that the tu quoque argument -- in which y...
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-- So you heard the glory days were over for MBAs? Well, shed no tears. A survey by New York University's Leonard N. Stern school of business shows that last year's graduates of the nation's top bu...
The following announcement by New York University's School of Continuing Education suggests that help is on the way for folks wishing to practice landlordism in rent-regulated New York City but afr...
Few institutions offer a more dramatic lesson in how not to run an endowment than New York University. Its star-studded board of trustees is led by CBS Chief Executive Laurence Tisch, an outspoken ...
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