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...financial meltdown has claimed the careers of many banking-industry stars. But no executive has had as big a roller-coaster ride during this crisis as Lewis. At its start, Lewis and Bank of America looked to benefit from the turmoil facing the banking business. The firm, based in Charlotte, N.C., had never been a big player in the subprime-mortgage business, in either lending or underwriting loans. That prudence led to smaller lending losses at B of A than at Citigroup and other rivals. What's more, while other financial firms were verging on broke, Bank of America seemed...
Falk said he will benefit from his experiences at Harvard in his new position at Williams, citing the parallels between the close-knit liberal arts environment that the school espouses and his own time as a physics student in Cambridge. “My time at Harvard was spent as a grad student, and that is a very personal education,” Falk said. “The Ph.D. program is a very intimate form of education—a lot of one-on-one work with your professors and fellow grad students...
...providing time for arts and sports comes at the cost of academic instruction. Since the stimulus bill includes an education component totaling more than $125 billion, funding for this additional class time seems plentiful. Districts that have failed historically in their attempts to implement arts and sports programs could benefit immensely from this financial support...
Here in Massachusetts, early results for the expanded learning time initiative suggest that adding hours to the day or days to the year to expand time spent on both traditional academics and enrichment activities improve performance on state standardized tests. Charter schools, moreover, also appear to benefit from longer school years or days. The KIPP national network of charter schools, for example, has a school day typically running from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday class every other weekend, and a three-week summer session, and KIPP’s eighth-grade classes regularly outperform their district averages...
Currently topping the list? An idea marked “Energy Savings by turning lights off” clocks in at an average ranking of 4.91, boasting 115 votes, three comments, and a reminder that buildings like the Malkin Athletic Center are currently lit all night, and could benefit from the installation of a timer or motion sensor system...