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...only $19 billion left to cover future failures. That's the lowest the FDIC's insurance fund has been in more than 15 years. As a result, on Friday the FDIC decided to raise the fee it charges large banks for deposit insurance. Also, President Obama recently agreed to allow the FDIC to borrow as much as $100 billion, up from $30 billion, from the Treasury if its recovery fund needs...
University President Drew G. Faust publicly reaffirmed Harvard’s support for federal legislation that would allow illegal immigrant students to become permanent residents—a position shared by the Association of American Universities and all three representatives to the US congress whose districts include Harvard. “The DREAM Act would throw a lifeline to these students who are already working hard in our middle and high schools and living in our communities by granting them the temporary legal status that would allow them to pursue postsecondary education,” Faust wrote in letters...
While it is unfortunate that incidents like the ones depicted in the latest set of photographs occurred, we do not want to have a government that systematically suppresses the release of information that could damage its political standing. We believe that the release of the photographs would allow the American people to document the abuse of detainees and create a system in which future mistakes could be prevented. As such, we are extremely disappointed in the Obama administration’s change of heart and hope that this does not mark a turn away from its heretofore transparent and praiseworthy...
...people have been very respectful of that. And that helps, because you can only do - we're only as successful at it as people allow...
...Czech Republic is one of four E.U. countries - out of 27 - that are yet to finish ratifying a treaty that would allow the enlarged bloc to reform its institutions. The goal of the Lisbon Treaty, which the E.U. has been working on since its failed attempt to pass a constitution in 2005, is to boost the E.U.'s influence on the world stage by making it more effective. (Read "Czech Government's Collapse Hits...