That isKen Lowson. LOWSON: OK, so I invented ticket bots about, oh, 18 or 19 years ago. That might be a bit of an overreach — others were working on ticket bots too. But still: We’ve been hearing about the supply side of ticket-selling — how the allocation happens, how prices...
The second hedge fund billionaire on the list, Ken Griffin runs Citadel, which manages more than $30 billion. Griffin got his start making trades from his Harvard dormitory, where he even reportedly put a satellite dish on the roof to get real-time quotes. Today, Griffin is considered an a...
nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship...
In general, the sound system of German is a lot more like the English one than the French or Italian is (as witness the fact that Germans find it a lot easier to acquire a good English accent than French speakers do, by and large.) I suspect that anything like this is in practice g...
December 2008 is not one of those dates that gets burned on your brain, like the moon landing, or D-Day, or the end of Seinfeld. But I remember where I was. I was at my post as the host of a personal finance show on national radio, and I was taking calls from people all over...
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One night I looked for my radio operator Sam Sniderman and found out he was out gathering grenades for the men on the pe- rimeter. Next morning I requested some sort of illumination during these night attacks. The Navy had a shell they fired into the air where it would light up a ...
In 1978, when I got fired from Hustler, Ken Kesey had invited me to come to Egypt with the Merry Prankster, where the Grateful Dead would be playing at the pyramids. Now, Cairo was buzzing with pedestrians--some barefoot, others wearing platform shoes from the Third World Dumping Ground Ba...
up at The Committee in San Francisco some years previously. Now she told me that when she first met Charlie and people asked her what he was like, she had compared him to Lenny Bruce and me. It was the weirdest compliment I ever got, but I began to understand Manson's peculiar ...