Oct 9th, 2008 · The SATs can be good for behaviorally challenged slackers who just so happen to be great test takers. But is it really good for anyone else? A new study says yes, but urges colleges, parents and students to loosen up.
Jun 3rd, 2008 · A developer near San Diego is offering a buy one, get one free deal — on homes. If you have $1.6 million to buy the first house, you'll get a second, smaller home just 10 minutes away. Michael Crews Development said it's just a way to move product. It's been trying this promotion for almost a month with no takers.
Feb 23rd, 2008 · Photographer Amanda Jones, who takes pictures of people's beloved dogs. Her sessions run $1,400, not including the charge for prints. But she has plenty of takers among pet fans.
Jan 2nd, 2008 · One of the country's big mortgage providers says efforts to sell it self have failed. PHH (formerly known as Cendant) is one of the country's top home-loan companies. The private buyout firm Blackstone was planning to buy the company's mortgage business.
Dec 12th, 2007 · The Academy Award for Citizen Kane, the first movie made by Orson Welles, was expected to get a million dollars or more at auction. But nobody made the minimum bid. Somebody did want a cheaper prize. Welles' personal copy of the Citizen Kane script.
Aug 28th, 2007 · The College Board announces the results of the latest round of SAT scores. Scores are down compared with last year -- one point on average in reading and three points in writing and math. The differences are small, and may reflect changes in who's taking the test.
Jul 3rd, 2007 · Donald Trump has tried and failed to find a buyer for the casino company bearing his name. Trump Entertainment Resorts says it has ended talks with potential buyers. The announcement sent Trump's share price down sharply.
Jun 30th, 2005 · Robert Siegel talks with Mark Bowden, national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly and the author of a forthcoming book, Guest of the Ayatolla. Bowden has been to Iran and interviewed a number of the Iranians who overthrew the American Embassy during the revolution, holding hostages there, and has interviewed other Iranians about their attitudes about it for a book coming out next spring. Bowden says other hostage takers have told him that the man just elected president of Iran was one of the eight students responsible for planning and executing the hostage taking. Bowden says the former hostage-takers are not held up as heroes in Iran anymore, that they have been criticized by both the right and the left in recent years.