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...said not to try to be too funny. I think you should try to be as funny as you can. He's right that sometimes you see a winning caption that's clever but not really funny. But there are others I've seen - not mine, I hasten to add - that really are terrific and funny. I wish I could say mine were really funny, but I think they fall more into the clever category. You know: "That works...
...move seems to have worked. Fifth Third says the cash payments were enough to persuade holders of more than $550 million in preferred stock to convert their shares to common. Add that amount to the more than $600 million Fifth Third had left from its stock offering, and bingo: Stress test passed - over $1.1 billion in new common equity. The problem is the money Fifth Third paid to preferred shareholders to convert to common equity will also end up depleting Tier 1 capital - a measure of total bank resources, not just common equity - by $365 million...
...president for administration and finance at Baylor College of Medicine. Sweet stepped into a redefined executive dean’s position that had previously been held on an interim basis. But he had barely enough time to adjust to his new office in University Hall before he had to add the fiscal fate of the Faculty to the top of his to-do list...
...Altogether, students and some House administrators say that certain cost-cutting measures—whether initiated by College or by House officials—will change the nature of House life. Moreover, they add that these changes seemingly undercut the rhetoric of both the Renewal Report and the foundation of House life as articulated by President Lowell more than seven decades...
...generation of instant gratification. The simultaneous rise of video technology and online news sources has engendered a profound sense of nostalgia—not entirely unjustified—lamenting the disintegration of our national discourse into one of soundbytes and an American youth plagued by generational ADD. After observing a teenager’s impatience with the sloth of text messaging, comedian Louis CK commented wryly, “Your message is going to space. Give it a second.” Moreover, our vocabulary has come to reflect the speed at which our words are spoken and sent: Since...