Buffett Becomes Real Estate Vulture as HomeServices Gets Deals Black Can't Sep 3, 2008
NRT's options are limited by the growing debt of its parent, said , a finance professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Realogy, based in Parsippany, New Jersey, said it will pay interest in October on $550 million of 11 percent notes due in 2014 by borrowing $32 million. (Bloomberg)
Free Speech: Obama's Motion To Suppress Sep 3, 2008
When local radio station WGN found out Kurtz was in town, he was invited to appear on its "Extension 720" radio show hosted by University of Chicago professor Milt Rosenberg that Wednesday night, Aug. 27. Producer Zack Christenson said: "I called the Obama campaign, let them know that we were going to have Stanley Kurtz on the show, and offered them a chance to come on the show as well to rebut anything that he said." Christenson said the Obama campaign's response was, "This guy's a liar" and... (Investors Business Daily)
McCain's Obama-Palin Comparison Falls Short Sep 3, 2008
When that job ended, he joined a Chicago law firm and became a lecturer at the University of Chicago law school, and the Chicago Tribune picked him as one of "25 Chicagoans on the road to making a difference.". Obama's community organizing career had come years earlier, in 1985-88. (Newsmax)
LETTERS: NCT, Sept. 1, 2008 Sep 2, 2008
obama was a professor of constitutional law at the university of chicago for 12 years for which he earned $60,000 annually. obama was an illinois state senator. (North County Times)
A Room With A Viewpoint: Conservation Messages And Motivation Sep 2, 2008
Authors Noah J. Goldstein (University of Chicago), Robert B. Cialdini, and Vladas Griskevicius (both Arizona State University) found that the types of signs posted in hotel bathrooms had different effects. Signs that focused on the environmental benefits were less effective than signs that pointed out the level of participation of other guests. (Science Daily)
`Horse and Buggy' Antitrust Decrees Seldom Die: Cindy Skrzycki Sep 2, 2008
When you look at a consent decree issued 40 years ago and ask if they are applicable, the answer is no,'' said , an economics professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. The antitrust division is eager to clear its books. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
Book Review: 'Nudge' Sep 2, 2008
Thaler, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and Sunstein, a law professor formerly at Chicago but now at Harvard, apply this line of argument to a wide array of familiar areas: saving, borrowing, energy consumption, smoking, teenage pregnancy and many others. Along the way they present fascinating findings about how people actually make decisions, together with lots of personal advice: save more, diversify your investments, don't invest much in your employer's stock, don't pay... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Playing, and even watching, sports improves brain function Sep 2, 2008
Being an athlete or merely a fan improves language skills when it comes to discussing their sport because parts of the brain usually involved in playing sports are instead used to understand sport language, new research at the University of Chicago shows ... "We show that non-language related activities, such as playing or watching a sport, enhance one's ability to understand language about their sport precisely because brain areas normally used to act become highly involved in language... (EurekAlert!)
Return of Entourage is Cant Miss TV Sep 1, 2008
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Yeah, About that 'Experience' thing... Sep 1, 2008
(Darn those University of Chicago papers. . (Townhall.com)
Plying the waters, by boat, map, and memory Aug 31, 2008
Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change By Mark Monmonier University of Chicago, 224 pp. illustrated, $25. (Boston Globe)
ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE Aug 31, 2008
"The research only began in the late 1980s, early 1990s," says co-author and University of Chicago professor John T. Cacioppo. "The social world was thought to be too complicated to be studied scientifically. But the brain is being sculpted by the demands of the social world. It's fundamental.". (New York Post -- Opinions)
* Milton Friedman: still stirring academia after all these years Aug 31, 2008
So when the University of Chicago, whose economics department has been an incubator for the free-market creed, announced in May that a new institute would be named in his honor, it set off a fierce intellectual skirmish. Seven committee members were appointed last year to formulate a plan for a research center on economy and society. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Obama's questionable stimulus plan Aug 31, 2008
He came from an extremely complex and difficult childhood to become a successful student at Harvard Law School, a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, a United States senator and now the Democratic nominee for president. He is a fine speaker, and when he talks, he often does so in the nuanced, well-thought-out way that reminds me of my finest law school professors. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
All is not lost: Biologist sees plenty of hope for wildlife Aug 31, 2008
He is author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and five books, including the upcoming The Better to Eat You With: Fear in the Animal World, published by the University of Chicago Press. Currently, he is in full stride on two research projects. (Missoulian, MT)
McCain picks Alaska gov as running mate. Aug 31, 2008
Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, as a Lecturer for four years (19921996), and as a Senior Lecturer for eight years (19962004). McCain cleaned up in Phoenix really, really good, just ask Charles Keating Jr.. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
13% of Seniors Report Being Mistreated Aug 30, 2008
The University of Chicago researchers said the chief forms were verbal abuse (9 percent), being taken advantage of financially (3. 5 percent), and physical abuse (0. (MEDLINEplus)
FOXSexpert: Who's Having the Most Sex? Aug 29, 2008
This instrument, sponsored by the University of Chicago s National Foundation, surveys about 3,000 people every other year on their sexual behaviors. In conducting a large-scale statistical analysis of the survey s data, John Robinson, of the University of Maryland, and Geoffrey Godbey, of Penn State University (and a former professor of mine. (Fox News)
SEARCH & DESTROY Aug 29, 2008
On Wednesday, Obama exhorted his followers to sabotage the WGN radio show of veteran Chicago host (and University of Chicago professor) Milt Rosenberg. Why. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Gore: Obama = Lincoln... Aug 29, 2008
Your Occidental College records Your Columbia College records Your Columbia Thesis paper Your Harvard College records Your Selective Service Registration Your medical records Your Illinois State Senate records Your Illinois State Senate schedule Your Law practice client list A Certified Copy of your original Birth certificate Your embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth Your Harvard Law Review articles that were published Your University of Chicago scholarly articles Your Record of... (The Drudge Report)
DNC: Will it mean long-term boost for Denver? Aug 29, 2008
A small positive bounce is probably the best you can hope for, said Allen Sanderson, economics professor at the University of Chicago. National political conventions do generate millions in spending, he said, but they also result in considerable lost business and costs for host cities. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Things do look different here Aug 29, 2008
Born in Kansas City, Frank went to the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago but kept one foot in the solid soil of Middle America. As he studied politics and history and became a journalist, he kept wondering why people on his home turf were voting against what he saw as their economic interests -- in other words, voting Republican -- and went back home to find out. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
Fear on campaign trail Aug 29, 2008
He now is a professor at the University of Chicago and ubiquitous in local affairs. He and Obama briefly served on a board of an anti-poverty group together, and Ayers hosted a brunch for Obama 13 years ago when the latter was running for the state Senate. (Albany Times Union)
Obama and Big Government Aug 29, 2008
The New York Times recently reported that Obama "likes experts, and his choice of advisers stems in part from his interest in empirical research." Nobel laureate economist James Heckman of the University of Chicago, who was asked for input on education policy by Obama's advisers, told the Times, "I've never worked with a campaign that was more interested in what the research shows.". . (Townhall.com)
LETTERS: NCT, Aug. 28, 2008 Aug 29, 2008
" Kind of interesting? Experience and judgment wrote on Aug 28, 2008 1:27 PM:Funny how so many people who voted for Bush in 2000, when he had zero experience in federal service, when he ran against the incredibly experienced Al Gore, now say that experience in governing is so important. At that time, they liked how goofy-dumb-regler Bush sounded and were happy to vote for someone without the baggage of a lifetime of DC "experience". Then, in 2004, they voted for Bush again despite his very... (North County Times)
Prioritize early education Aug 29, 2008
In writing a summary of his findings, Lynch quoted James Heckman, a Nobel Prize winning economist from the University of Chicago. Heckman, Lynch wrote, has concluded that "We cannot afford to postpone investing in children until they become adults, nor can we wait until they reach school age - a time when it may be too late to intervene. Learning is a dynamic process and is most effective when it begins at a young age and continues through adulthood.". (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
Cross-donor system planned for region's kidney patients Aug 29, 2008
Even tough critics such as Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross, medical ethicist at the University of Chicago, agree that the paired-exchange system can be fair. Ross has faulted other approaches for discriminating against one group of patients in favor of another, but she said she's ''totally in favor" of Roth's system. The paired-exchange system comes 50 years after Dr. Joseph Murray carried out the nation's first kidney transplant at what is now Brigham and Women's Hospital, using a kidney taken from... (Yahoo News -- Organ Donation & Transplants)
'Plight' blog post, paper cause stir Aug 29, 2008
"I don't know what their objective was, but this is a paper with a surprising number of problems," said , associate professor of social service at the University of Chicago, Levitt's home base. "There's so much more going on here than what they're saying that the decisions they make look capricious, at a minimum.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Thrill' revisits notorious Leopold/Loeb murder Aug 28, 2008
1956 novel by Meyer Levin, who had attended the University of Chicago with the killers ... Both young men students at the University of Chicago came from wealthy, prominent families who rallied 'round with money and support after the arrest. (USA Today -- Life)
A PhD in putting out Aug 28, 2008
But U of T is the first Canadian institution to recognize the advanced study of sexuality, following the lead of U.S. schools such as University of Chicago, Yale, Cornell, New York University and the City University of New York. There are 165 registered students in the University of Toronto's undergrad program, which started 10 years ago. (Globe and Mail)
Is voting a Christian rite or right? Aug 28, 2008
According to Martin Marty, a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, the obligation to vote can be traced back to biblical times. "I think most churches would say there's a great moral suasion behind it," Marty said. (USA Today -- News)
Trying to satisfy too many agendas slows school reform Aug 28, 2008
Payne, the Frank P. Hixon Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago and a leading scholar of school reform, noted that other cities have gone through similar bouts of reform, but few had Chicago's advantages ... " The Consortium on Chicago School Research (at the University of Chicago) is the closest thing we have to a Manhattan Project on urban schools, and from its inception, it has maintained a commitment to combining quantitative and qualitative... (EurekAlert!)
Sidley Austin Experience Downplayed in Democratic Convention Speeches Aug 27, 2008
He also taught at the University of Chicago Law School and organized voter registration drives for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign ... She later worked as a dean at the University of Chicago, and as a vice president for community and external affairs at the university s hospital. (Law.com)
Obama fights 'Swift Boat'-style ads Aug 27, 2008
But Bauer said that hardly constitutes launching the political career of a University of Chicago Law School lecturer and the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review, who had just published his first memoir, "Dreams From My Father.". A Bauer letter to Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Keeney challenges him to make good on a promise to vigorously act in the face of "a knowing and willful attempt to evade the strictures of federal election law.". (MSNBC -- Race)
Obama general counsel calls for prosecution... Aug 27, 2008
Ben Smith's Blog: Obama camp: Prosecute Simmons - Politico. " Bauer made the case that Simmons' group fulfilling its a real nonprofit charter because it hasn't spent any money on anything other than attacking Obama. The American Issues Project released a statement responding to the letter. "Having failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama's campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech," said Ed... (The Drudge Report)
Obama's Shell Game Aug 27, 2008
Barack Obama must have seen these scams on the mean streets of Harvard or the pathways around the Ivory Tower of University of Chicago Law School, because he sure does have the con down pat. Today he released his economic stimulus policy proposals. (Townhall.com)
Dispatches from Denver: Old Guard, new breed make up Montana's delegation Aug 27, 2008
Obama taught one of Taylor's law classes at the University of Chicago in the mid-'90s. She says even then he had a special quality. (Missoulian, MT)
Weekly Trivia Aug 27, 2008
THE ANSWER: Jay Berwanger, University of Chicago, 1936. 2. (Georgia Sports -- Rivals.com)
The tragic tale of Caesar Aug 27, 2008
Maria Wyke, a witty and ingenious professor of Latin at University College London, examines the blossoming of the Caesarian reputation in her superb new book, Caesar: A Life in Western Culture (University of Chicago Press). Her account of how writers have used him explains why he's achieved what he most wanted when he was alive: to be acknowledged forever as the greatest Roman. (National Post)
In Prime-Time Address to the Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama to Focus on Values that Shape Her, Drive Her Husband Aug 26, 2008
He earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and spent seven years as a vice president for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Craig never gave up his love for the game and in 1999, after some serious thought, he decided to leave the world of finance and get back on the basketball court. (PR Newswire)
Clinton Advisers Skipping Obama Speech... Aug 26, 2008
And become a constitutional scholar at one of the most conservative, tough law schools in the country, University of Chicago. Oh, man, are you barking up the wrong tree. (The Drudge Report)
Does the VP matter? Aug 26, 2008
She left corporate law for community service positions and later became an administrator of the University of Chicago hospitals. Daughters Malia and Sasha are 10 and 7. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Reluctant no more, Michelle Obama takes stage Aug 26, 2008
When her husband ran for Congress in 2000, Michelle Obama groused so much about handshaking and fund-raising that Arthur Sussman, then her boss at the University of Chicago, finally asked if she truly could not find a single thing about campaigning to enjoy. Obama thought for a moment. (International Herald Tribune)
Obama's ideological elusiveness Aug 26, 2008
His most influential advisers hail from the University of Chicago, a bastion of free-marketers and a place where he taught law-school classes for many years. In foreign affairs, Obama stands defined by opposition to the Iraq war and emphasis on "transnational" threats, from global warming to disease and terrorism. (International Herald Tribune)
When Communication Is Lost Aug 26, 2008
D., professor of neurology and psychology, University of Chicago, and medical director, Comprehensive Aphasia Center of Chicago; U.S. National Institutes of Health; The National Aphasia Association) ... "There are patients who can fluently say something that sounds like a sentence, but it's just garbage," said speech language pathologist Paul Rao, vice president of clinical services, quality improvement and corporate compliance at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C. "It's... (Health-Finder)
Obama dogged by links to 1960s radical Aug 26, 2008
In 1997, they were on a juvenile justice panel sponsored by the University of Chicago ... Cass Sunstein, a University of Chicago law professor who knows both men, is "very disturbed by (Ayers') past and by his refusal to disavow what he did." Still, he says, "I think the implications of this for Obama are zero.". (USA Today)
Obama team has run presidential paths before Aug 26, 2008
Valerie Jarrett, a lawyer who heads the University of Chicago Medical Center Board, has no formal campaign title. She's a frequent traveling companion who has the candidate's ear, in part because of her long ties to Obama and his wife, Michelle. (USA Today)
No Prescription? Have Some of Mine Aug 26, 2008
A conversation with Dr. John Hickner, a University of Chicago professor who has been studying medical testing mistakes at the family doctor s office. Comments of the Moment. (New York Times)
Ted Kennedy Looks for DR's Clearance to Attend Convention... Aug 25, 2008
Barack Obama's wife and three close advisers have been involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical. More to come. (The Drudge Report)
Volunteers Fill Void for Seniors Needing Aid, Companionship Aug 25, 2008
University of Chicago researchers found that lonely older adults had greater age-related increases in blood pressure and poorer sleep quality than elderly who are more socially active. So what can you do to help. (Pekin Times, IL)
Triad schools make college ranking list Aug 25, 2008
Duke was the only North Carolina school to crack the top-ten national university list, tied at number 8 with Columbia and the University of Chicago. Reader Comments. (Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area)
Markets need more regulation, Fed is told Aug 25, 2008
Another plan by University of Chicago economist Raghuram Rajan and others would create a special insurance fund for banks that would be triggered at times of systemic distress, infusing capital to lenders. Debate was sometimes heated. (USA Today -- Money)
Michelle Obama's Savvy Sacrifice Aug 25, 2008
Michelle went on to work as an associate dean of students at the University of Chicago, launching a community service program for undergrads before moving to the university's medical school to become vice president of external relations, a fancy title for the person who helps the well-endowed school relate to its struggling Hyde Park neighborhood ... In addition to serving on the boards of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Michelle also... (Time.com)
John Lott: Dem VP Pick Biden Has Rare Trait: Decency Aug 24, 2008
The Obama that I knew while we were both at the University of Chicago Law School during the 1990s was someone who disliked talking to people with whom he disagreed. Possibly it was just his extreme dislike of gun ownership, but I had more than one occasion when my attempts to talk to him ended in him turning his back and walking away. (Fox News)
FairTax debate airs tonight on CNN Aug 24, 2008
Magnificent Dimwit s wife and three close advisers have been involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who don t have private insurance primarily poor, black people to other health care facilities. Michelle Obama currently on unpaid leave from her $317,000-a-year job as a vice president of the prestigious hospital helped create the program, which aims to find neighborhood doctors for low-income people who were flooding the emergency room for basic... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
High noon in duel for White House Aug 24, 2008
He is at home in the rabble-rousing church of his former pastor Jeremiah Wright and yet he is also in his element at the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School. He plays basketball and can write like a professional novelist. (Times Online)
Packing DNA: How Did Genetic Storage Evolve? Aug 24, 2008
"It is like compacting your entire wardrobe into a shoebox," said Riccardo Levi-Setti, Professor Emeritus in Physics at the University of Chicago ... "Dinoflagellates have much more nuclear DNA than humans," said Texas A&M biologist Peter Rizzo, who collaborated on the research with Levi-Setti and Konstantin Gavrilov, a Visiting Research Scientist in the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago ... For the last 15 years, Levi-Setti has collaborated with associates of pioneering... (Science Daily)
Government needs to focus on product safety, not obesity Aug 24, 2008
Actually, a study summarized by two University of Chicago professors makes it clear that "preschool television exposure" leads to improved educational test scores later in life. My point is that sometimes increased body weight, even if due to less exercise, may indicate that other values of paramount importance to many people are being fostered. (Athens Banner-Herald)
ELECTION 2008: Obama: From unknown to nominee, a meteoric rise Aug 24, 2008
He and his wife, Michelle, lived in Hyde Park, the racially mixed neighborhood around the University of Chicago that is home to progressive politics, intellectuals and a sprinkling of Nobel Prize winners ... While waiting for one, Obama became a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School ... Law professors, especially those from a place like the University of Chicago, are viewed with a jaundiced eye in the Illinois legislature, says state Sen. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Dem candidate seeks to capture voters and nation's confidence Aug 24, 2008
In 1991, he graduated with honors and later began teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago. A year later, he married his wife, Michelle. (AZCentral -- News)
A room with a viewpoint: conservation messages and motivation Aug 24, 2008
Authors Noah J. Goldstein (University of Chicago), Robert B. Cialdini, and Vladas Griskevicius (both Arizona State University) found that the types of signs posted in hotel bathrooms had different effects. Signs that focused on the environmental benefits were less effective than signs that pointed out the level of participation of other guests. (EurekAlert!)
More About Obama Aug 23, 2008
Career Highlights U.S. Senator (2005-present) Illinois State Senator (1997-2004) Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School (1996-present) Practicing attorney (1993-96) Director, Developing Communities Project (1985-1988). Presidential Announcement 00004000 Date February 10, 2007. (CBS News)
Obama's mission in Denver Aug 23, 2008
The same pattern continued on Friday, when the Washington Post reported that both Mr. Obamas wife, Michelle, and a firm run by his chief strategist, David Axlerod, were active in an effort by University of Chicago Hospitals to convince indigent patients not to use the UCs emergency rooms for routine services. Ms. Obama was a vice president of the hospital system at the time. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Hamilos heads to MIT Aug 23, 2008
Hamilos, who started at middle hitter for the Warriors as a senior, chose MIT over a long list of academic powerhouses, including the University of Chicago, University of Rochester and Washington University in St. Louis. In the end, Hamilos settled on MIT because of the people she met on her campus visits, and the ability to play for a solid Division III program. (Medfield Press, MA)
Gymnasts' ages up in air without proof Aug 23, 2008
"There is no magic formula for this sort of thing," says Larry Gray, a pediatrician who directs the international adoption clinic at the University of Chicago Medical Center. "The only formula is when a parent tells you 'my child was born on such-and-such a day.' ". (The Palm Beach Post)
