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...Lewis can't muster much enthusiasm for his new role as savior. "It's nice that we could to some degree have an effect that would calm the markets" is all he will admit. BofA can't bail out the Wall Street banks, which have been busy trying to save themselves after absorbing some $100 billion in losses. Citigroup, reeling under the weight of its own sub-prime damage, announced a $9.8 billion loss for the fourth quarter of 2007, forcing it to seek $12.5 billion in new capital from investors including sovereign wealth funds run by Kuwait and Singapore...
Since the size of the entering class has held steady at about 1,650, Harvard will likely to continue to admit only about 2,100 students, meaning the admissions rate could plunge to 7.7 percent, down from 9.1 percent last year...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...giant asteroid or comet slamming into the Earth, resulting in a dust cloud that shrouded the sun, cooled the planet dramatically and killed off plants and animals wholesale. It's a compelling story, but plenty of scientists never completely bought it. The dinos died pretty quickly, they admit, but not quite abruptly enough to be explained this way. So alternate theories - the dinosaurs succumbed to allergies, from the rise of flowering plants, or to world-shaking volcanoes in what's now India, or to disease - have always bubbled around the periphery of the conventional wisdom. We wrote about...
...from office. "Democracy in Africa is not what is understood in the West," says Catholic bishop Cornelius Korir, whose cathedral in the town of Eldoret, north of Kiambaa, has become a refugee camp for 9,000 Kikuyus. "Since their wealth depends on power, our leaders are never ready to admit defeat." Incumbents like Kibaki, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni are among those who tried to alter their country's constitutions--some successfully--to cling to power. African voters are to some extent complicit in the undermining of democracy. When given an opportunity to vote...