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...Pundits and leftist politicians have responded by saying that even if Breton and other government officials did not act on information that rough times were ahead for EADS, they must have known months before the public did. And in that time, Airbus executives had sold millions in stock options - though all have maintained they did so legally, and after consulting company compliance officials. Among those was Noël Forgeard, who as co-president of EADS exercised around $14 million in stock options he and his children held in March 2006 - netting capital gains of over $3 million, just three...
...being provocative merely for the sake of it. If the lovemaking in the director's Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain represented a kind of prelapsarian idyll - a state of innocence that can never be recaptured - here the physical act takes his characters to a darker and more frightening place. "I think sexuality is worth exploring because it's the ultimate performance," says Lee, who is hanging out in a luxury hotel suite a few hours before the film's red-carpet Hong Kong premiere on Sept. 22. "The chemistry can be quite complicated. Sex is very much a performance. But that...
When it comes to the standardized college admissions tests like the SAT and ACT, there’s a lot to gripe about. Beyond bringing additional stress to the admissions process, it is unclear that standardized tests are really fair or measure actual aptitude. Indeed, studies have shown that standardized test scores are less effective than things like high school grades at predicting academic performance in college, are correlated with the socioeconomic status of test takers, and are subject to the influence of coaching and private tutoring, luxuries only available to those who can afford them.Despite their many flaws, however...
...scary.” The job might not have been ideal, but Lin thinks she had the right idea: “You can be kind of goofy. You’re an undergrad at a career fair, and this is the complete opposite of how you would normally act.” The $25 an hour didn’t hurt either; that’s how much i-bankers make, right? Woohoo...
When students in 1924 accused Widener Library administrators of censorship, one librarian at the time called the act a “duty.” “There are filthy books, salacious books, books corrupting in influence, which it is no part of the library’s duty to distribute to readers,” said the librarian, William C. Lane, according to an editorial in The Crimson that year. While Harvard’s librarians and the Square’s booksellers no longer yank books from their shelves, they are highlighting controversial books as part...