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Other students, like VES concentrator Tsitsi I. Gora ’05, say that Houses should adopt a weekly arts discussion like that in Adams House and sponsor more hands-on workshops...
...China's bankers, however, shouldn't take all the blame. Lending institutions are trying to adopt sophisticated credit-analysis techniques to apply to private borrowers, but even if they were world-class financiers, they would have a hard time offering credit to some of China's seat-of-the-pants entrepreneurs. For one thing, the government caps the annual interest rate banks can charge at 6.6%, an amount that barely compensates them for their risk. It also bars them from accepting things like sales contracts or inventory as collateral?even though small companies usually lack hard assets like land...
...organization with the most clout these days is an obscure legislative group called the Mediation Committee. Meeting in a soundproof Berlin conference room with no natural light - it's referred to as the Dark Room by pundits - this secretive political council hammers out agreements on legislation that has been adopted by the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, but rejected by the upper house, the Bundesrat. While the SPD won control of the Bundestag in September, last week's elections gave the CDU increased power over the Bundesrat. That means almost every new piece of legislation must be negotiated...
...contrast between an adoption case in 1952, in which a black couple was not permitted to adopt a mixed race child under Louisiana law, and the 1990 ruling by an Illinois court that “race should presumptively play no role in determining custody arrangements,” is a sharp...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is feeling the effects of the sour economy and, for the first time in a decade, will have to adopt frugal spending policies or risk major budget deficits as soon as the year...