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Experts Clean Up Your Online Image (For a Fee)

John Johnson — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:19:55 CDT

Introducing a budding new career choice: Internet Reputation Manager. If you're worried about what people will find when they Google your name, there's a growing number of businesses ready to polish your digital image, the Boston Globe reports. The fees run from $2,000 to $10,000 at one such...

Colleges Protest US News Ranking Survey

Jane Yager — Mon, 03 May 2010 05:36:27 CDT

Each spring, US News & World Report asks college presidents to rank the reputations of other colleges—and a dozen or more presidents protest the surveys, refusing to fill them out and encouraging others to do the same. The focus this year is not only on the survey itself, a...

Hey, Regular Joes, You've Got Blackmail

Jane Yager — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:14:13 CST

Whether the perpetrators are spurred by the recession or inspired by the David Letterman and Cindy Crawford cases, the ranks of aspiring blackmailers are swelling—and an increasing number of their plots are targeting ordinary private citizens. The typical non-celebrity extortion victim has a high net worth and has engaged...

They May Love Obama, But Still Don't Like US

Harry Kimball — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:31:00 CDT

President Obama is viewed favorably around the world, but his popularity hasn't worked any magic on the image of the US, Tom Schaller writes on FiveThirtyEight. A new poll of people in 20 countries finds the average global opinion of the role the US plays in the world is 41%...

Burris, Unsure on '10 Election Run, Faces Cash Crunch

Nick McMaster — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:27:07 CDT

Roland Burris says he hasn’t decided if he’ll run for election to his Senate seat in February 2010, but an aide says he has begun fundraising efforts, the Chicago Tribune reports. The “very aggressive” push to raise money “as quickly as possible” can’t come soon enough: Burris took in only...

Russia 'Already Paid a Price' for Georgia Invasion: Rice

Kate Rockwood — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:13:34 CDT

Condoleezza Rice says Russia has “already paid a price” for its invasion of Georgia, because its “reputation as a potential partner in international institutions—diplomatic, political, security, economic—is frankly in tatters.” Returning from a trip to Georgia, Rice made a string of Sunday talk show appearances, skirting questions about...

Dodd Fights to Redeem Dad

Jonas Oransky — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:50:00 CDT

Chris Dodd is not only running for president, he's on a mission to fix his father's reputation. Dodd's late father, Thomas, also a US senator, was censured in 1967 for making personal use of campaign funds. Years earlier, he made his name at the Nuremberg trials, and his son's new...