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...FDIC's concern about the fragility of the system extends to other agencies. On Sept. 23, while lobbying Congress for $700 billion to lift bad loans out of the financial system in hopes of restarting lending between banks, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson downplayed another, more extreme approach to shoring things up. "Some said we should just stick capital in the banks, take preferred stock in the banks," Paulson said. "That's what you do when you have failure. This is about success...
...course, we want to make a positive impression and want to make it clear that we are not partisan.” Liesl J. Newton ’11, agreed that door-to-door voter registration in Boston can be difficult. She said that whereas people voluntarily approach voter registration tables in Cambridge, the IOP’s efforts in Boston are sometimes seen as an “involuntary intrusion” and are met with “unpleasant responses.” Green pointed out that it is much easier to register college students. Education is highly...
...main objective will be to engage faculty with alumni on issues including leadership, globalization, and the financial markets. “We want to bring them back to campus for an experience that will hopefully reignite and re-cement their enthusiasm for the school through this common learning approach, which is reflective of the approach they enjoyed when they were students here,” he said. The three-day event, which costs $1,500 per person, currently has a waitlist of over 250 individuals, according to Stephanie Goff, director of alumni relations at the Business School. She said that...
...creation depends on the writer’s ability to construct a framework in which truth or “lifeness” can occur. With his “Godlike powers of omniscience,” the novelist is able to outwit convention and makes his work approach the truth. The truth can come out in surprising metaphors—the French writer Celine “shocks us out of the familiar by likening rush hour in Paris to catastrophe”—or with details and characters that remind us of our surroundings. It?...
...manor. Two fugitives lost in a violent sea in which their ships had catastrophically collided in disputed territory.But now he had called her. Yes? What? Yes. Yes. She felt as though her insides were ripping, palpably giving way. Her flesh expanded masochistically, straining forward as it sensed the approach of the ravenous tongues of flame, exploded as she felt rather than smelt the heavy aura of manure and wet straw and damp flesh burst into and flood the hall. He had come. Yes. He had conquered. A wave of liquid fire consumed her body: the first. Again, a wave...