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...asked council members for feedback about the possibility of adopt ing Yale's residential system, in which incoming first-year students would be assigned a Yard dorm for their first year, but all the students in a particular dorm would move on to the same House for their final three years...
...think Tikkun—their moderate path to peace—is so, so important,” Appel said. “I think it has to work this way, it doesn’t work any other way...we need to adopt this Tikkun stance...
...bought in 2000, used deceptive marketing to lure consumers into taking out loans with high rates and buying optional, pricey loan insurance without realizing it. Even before settling with the FTC, Citi stopped selling the insurance and lowered rates for 200,000 debtors. It was the first to voluntarily adopt the "Spitzer principles" imposed on Merrill Lynch, and now requires officers of public companies who get IPO shares through Citi to tell their shareholders about it. Citi says it will give its independent directors bigger roles, count stock options as a business expense and lower its assumed pension-plan rate...
...begged New Jersey's Supreme Court to block a Lautenberg candidacy but it quickly declined to do so. On Thursday, Ginsburg marched to the U.S. Supreme Court to file an appeal. For his part, Torricelli, weirdly relaxed, stayed at his farm. He spent time on the Internet looking to adopt a St. Bernard puppy something he'd been talking about for awhile. He also told friends that he'd never run for office again and that he was eager to start joining corporate boards. In the post-Enron era it's hard to imagine too many companies rushing to hire...
...prevent a repeat of the sort of price shocks that characterized the recent electricity crisis in California, the U.S. should adopt a single nationwide design for wholesale electricity markets, the commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) told an audience of about 100 people at the ARCO Forum last night...