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...think it was a very good opportunity and is the beginning of a bigger conversation between GSAS and President Faust,” said Zsuzsanna B. Magyar, a second-year regional studies in East Asia student. Faust briefly touched upon the presence of international students at GSAS, emphasizing that the “value of international students at GSAS to GSAS and the University is enormous...
...sometimes hostile ones - of struggling corporations. During the recession of the early 1990s, the LBO business faltered, and many predicted its demise. But buyout funds re-emerged under the more genteel moniker private equity, eschewed hostile takeovers, reliably outperformed the S&P 500 and grew to be a far bigger force than they ever were in the 1980s. From 2005 through mid-2007, PE firms - loaded with cash from pension funds, college endowments and sovereign wealth funds, and able to borrow trillions more from banks and bond investors - went on an unprecedented buying spree, snapping up the likes of Chrysler...
...dual childishness and precision; in sketching the form of Bachmann’s girlfriend Helga, he writes, “Before their eyes stood a Valkyrie in a short blue dress, disclosing stout calves and powerful knees that gave promise of heavenly thighs… Her breasts were bigger than the legendary blue mountains and just as unlikely, her bottom was as round as a terrestrial globe.” In doing so, Lind persuades the reader to see the world more and more through Bachmann’s eyes as he stumbles about in a mental haze, taking...
...upperclassman or coach has advice to give. “Erik [Kuld] helped me out earlier this year,” Jones says. “Little things like keeping my elbow higher have helped me a lot. I’ve had to get used to the bigger blocks, so the upperclassmen have been working with me on those adjustments.”We’ve worked a lot on his passing this year and he’s come a long way with that,” Baise says.Given Jones’s veteran-like performances...
...Sometimes I think that I’m bigger than the sound,” sang Karen O on “Cheated Hearts” from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ second album, “Show Your Bones.” If O, the leader of the New York trio, was previously afraid of overshadowing her bandmates—guitarist Nick Zinner and drummer Brian Chase—the massive shift that she directed for “It’s Blitz!” the band’s third album, would certainly not suggest...