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...bonds, but never held onto bundles of those bonds hoping to make a big profit. That means Cantor has not had to suffer the same credit crunch that its larger rivals have been struggling with for more than six months as many of those loans or bonds have gone bad. Many firms have had to pull back from some trading businesses, or go out of business all together...
...bad is the economy really?? Apparently pretty bad. The University's been taking such extreme measures as eliminating the January Experience and acknowledging the possibility of layoffs. But forget about all that. The real sign of the apocalypse? Opening the doors of the exclusive Faculty Club to the riffraff ordinary students. Now, far be it from FlyBy to draw a link between the economic situation and a bunch of grubby freshmen descending on old Abbot Lawrence Lowell's little gem. But the question remains...
...really have too many thoughts about whether they're productive; it's not an issue we've discussed much within HRC. The demonstrations seem to have gotten a lot of attention (good and bad) in the media, so to the extent that you buy into the idea that all publicity is good publicity (which I do not), I guess you could term them moderately successful. They do seem to have tapped into some of the sentiment against wasteful government spending...
Almost every faculty member I've spoken to thinks that it would be a bad idea, because students are very young, almost volatile. Giving an "F," for example, to a student who is armed is a daunting prospect. But I wont dismiss this argument the way many people will. I think students have a point. If we can't keep them safe, don't they have a right to keep themselves safe...
Guatemala has long been a drug transshipment point between South and North America. But only in recent years have investigators begun to see how firmly a narco-economy is taking hold there, which is always bad news for small, poor and corrupt countries like Guatemala. Experts say it's hard to know just how much the Guatemalan economy depends on drug profits, but they agree that it's a significant source of employment and capital today. If trafficking and related businesses were shut down, unemployment would skyrocket in certain parts of the country, like La Reforma, says Leonel Ruiz, second...