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...think it makes the conversation better and creates a more lively environment,” said Peter Becker, a History and Literature tutor. “[The students] see what their peers are doing, and there’s a certain incentive to push themselves...
...Becker noted that the intellectual intensity of the one-on-one tutorial could be daunting to some students faced with the prospect of two-hour conversations with their tutor...
...GIST: Expanding on the Pulitzer Prize-winning series published last year in the Washington Post (co-written with Jo Becker), Gellman explores Dick Cheney's reign as the most powerful vice-president in American history. Angler - the VP's Secret Service nickname - reveals Cheney's heavy hand in formulating everything from financial policy (Cheney favored of more tax cuts for the wealthy and cuts in the capital gains tax) to energy policy (he forced a reversal on President Bush's 2000 campaign promise to reduce carbon emissions). The bulk of the book's drama, though, is found in Cheney...
...Investors think that Commerzbank did not get as good a deal as Allianz," said Konrad Becker, a financial industry analyst at Merck Finck...
...that Germany has safeguarded its core commercial banks from foreign raiders, the Postbank, a large retail bank with no corporate lending or investment banking activities, could end up in foreign hands. "Postbank is the last chance for anyone who wants get into the German commercial banking market," said Becker, the Merck Finck analyst...