| A Liberal Arts College Marks Five Years in Ghana
Tell me about Ashesi, your mission and your focus. If you had the ear of a potential donor at a cocktail party for just two minutes, what would you most want them to know? A. Well, I would want them to know that Ashesi is about educating a new generation of leaders in Africa who think ethically and who are problem solvers and have the ability and the desire to confront problems on the continent. Q. And it has a liberal arts focus? A. Yes, I think that the liberal arts focus is probably the most important thing that we're doing at Ashesi and it's driven in part by my experiences at Swarthmore, but also comparing that with the experiences of my colleagues who were educated in Ghana for college. In Ghana the educational system is very heavily dependent on rote learning, just memorizing facts and repeating them to faculty.
Higher Credit Card Rates May Be Lurking in Your Mailbox
You'd think that an economic environment chock-full of interest rate cuts from the Fed would lead credit card issuers to gradually decrease the rates they charge us on our plastic. But no -- many cards have actually been raising their rates recently. Bill Hardekopf of LowCards.com, for example, has noted rates moving in directions other than down at cards from American Express (NYSE: AXP), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). What's going on? Well, there's been a bit of a financial crisis at many banks (you may have heard about it). It's related to their having issued a few regrettable mortgages to risky borrowers. So, perhaps feeling pressured, they're seeking out additional income from the likes of you and me, via the debt that we carry. We don't have to be their suckers, though.
Rhetoric will leave off where McCain begins
In one sentence on primary night in Wisconsin, U.S. Sen. John McCain nailed Barack Obama — and defined precisely the terms of the fall campaign. Be not intimidated by the growing certainty that the rhetorically gifted Obama, and not his fingernails-across-the-chalkboard opponent, will emerge as McCain's opponent in November. With Hillary came the high negatives that gave Republicans hope of a built-in general election advantage. With Obama comes an army of high-end liberals, affluent and well-educated, along with an energized swell of blacks and the young drawn specifically to him. The prospect of running against a "movement" has unnerved some Republicans, to say nothing of those — affiliated or not — who have listened to Democrats lay out their vision for America through a long series of debates.
Drew's Huge Heart
If for no other reason, he could wear it at least sometimes, but he absolutely refuses to do so. I have some real problems with that. And when he was asked to denounce Farrakan, it was obvious that he was not comfortable doing so. Posted at 2:50PM on Mar 3rd 2008 by take off the MASK obamas THANK GOD THERE IS ONE SANE PERSON LEFT THAT ACTUALLY SEES WHAT KIND OF MANIPULATION IS GOING ON - JUST SAY NO-BAMA. THE MAN IS REALLY SCARY, MAYBE EVEN LESS COMPITENT AS BUSH AND IDIOTS ARE ON HIS BANDWAGON- DO THESE PEOPLE ALSO THINK PARIS HILTON IS GREAT? WHY IS OUR COUNTRIES POPULATION DUMBING DOWN? ITS A SERIOUS PROBLEM. LIKE BUYING A HOUSE WITH AN ADJUSTABLE MORTGAGE AND NO MONEY DOWN AND PRETENDING IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A GOOD DEAL- THEN COMPLAINING WHEN YOU CANT "FLIP IT" .
Visa sees IPO of $406 million Class A shares at $37-$42 each
SAN FRANCISCO: Visa Inc, the world's largest credit-card network, on Monday registered its initial public offering of 406 million Class A shares at an estimated price of $37 to $42 per share.
The company estimated that net proceeds of the sale would come to about $15.6 billion, assuming the mid point of the offer range.
In an amended filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said JP Morgan Securities, Goldman Sachs, Banc of America Securities, Citigroup Global Markets, HSBC Securities, and Merrill Lynch, among others, were underwriting the IPO.
The San Francisco-based company said it applied for a New York Stock Exchange listing under the symbol "V." .
More details emerge on Super Bowl massacre plot
The man whom the FBI accuses of planning a Super Bowl massacre sent his rambling missives in red, white and blue envelopes to media heavyweights and locally run Web sites, according to court records unsealed Friday. Super Bowl massacre averted at last minute Gun in Super Bowl plot was banned, now popular Drunkensteins bar name scares off Tempe Kurt Havelock, who turned himself in to authorities Feb. 3, also sent letters explaining his plan to a federal employment office in Pennsylvania, his parents in Surprise and a woman in Chandler. The envelope to the Chandler woman also contained $928 in cash, a Home Depot credit card, a Visa card and keys, according to a list of items seized for evidence. Havelock is being held without bail on suspicion of sending threats through the mail.
Archivist: I Stole Papers to Pay Bills
A state archivist was charged Monday with stealing hundreds of artifacts _ documents representing "the heritage of all Americans," according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay _ to pay his household bills. Daniel Lorello, 54, is accused of taking the rare items from the New York State Library, including Davy Crockett Almanacs, Currier and Ives lithographs and the 1865 railroad timetable for Abraham Lincoln's funeral train. Authorities believe he hawked them for tens of thousands of dollars, using much of that to pay off his daughter's credit card debt. "This crime is especially repugnant, because it's dealing with historic documents," state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said. "It's literally stealing the legacy of the state of New York page by page." Lorello, an archives and records management specialist in the New York Department of Education, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and scheme to defraud and was released on his recognizance.
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