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...Saving the banking system was not Lewis's job. Bernanke and Paulson had no right to ask him to abandon what were his very clear duties and press him into service doing something contrary to the obligations of his office. Since there will never be answers to what would have happened if B of A had abandoned Merrill it is useless to speculate about whether Paulson and Bernanke did the right thing. What happened when Lewis was asked to take a role which was not reasonably his is that the ethical obligation of refraining from force to pervert another person...
...cities all over the world, from Boston to L.A., Montreal to Fresno, Moscow to Sao Paulo, and Paris to Beirut, host thriving Armenian communities made up of scattered survivors and their descendants, all of whom have a story to tell. And, when we do talk to them, instead of asking, “Was it a genocide?”, we should simply ask, “What happened?” That way, instead of feeling the pressure to shape such devastating experiences to a label, we can let the content of history speak for itself...
Harvard originally banned ROTC from campus 40 years ago, amid anti- Vietnam War sentiment. Since then, Harvard has continued to ban the program citing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which prevents openly gay people from serving in the armed forces...
...rationale for the standing policies could change if President Obama follows through on campaign promises to reevaluate the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policies...
...authorities did, however, ask a local non-profit group, Childline, to meet Rubina and check on her well-being. "Our chat with the child was informal and was not intended to explore any story or seek the child's version of events or even to determine whether the story was genuine or not," a Childline spokesman said. The group has not yet been able to establish anything about Rubina's relationship with her mother, father or stepmother. "Those require a number of sittings and a variety of investigations," the spokesman said. (Read a story about what fate awaits Slumdog...