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...same need for confidence." He's one of a number of Swedish financial types who have been shuttling in and out of Washington and New York in recent months with a compelling message: there is a way to shore up ailing financial institutions without saddling taxpayers with the entire bill...
...There were other women keeping Buffett on track while "he ruled out paying attention to almost anything but business." There was Sharon Osberg, the bridge player who first persuaded Buffett to use a computer - a task even his good friend Bill Gates couldn't pull off. There was Carol Loomis, the writer at Fortune (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Inc.), who edited Buffett's annual letter to shareholders. And, most vividly depicted of all, there was Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post, in which Buffett was a major investor. Graham became Buffett's entr...
...advocated a return to the neighborhood schools system. Some were not convinced of the underlying value of a socially engineered school system. “We actually had less choice in Cambridge with a controlled choice program than we would in a town without it,” said Bill Hees, a parent who also said he worried that controlled choice was prioritizing socioeconomic diversity over an appropriate education for all students. School committee member Patricia M. Nolan ‘80 said the board would definitely keep parents’ suggestions in mind...
...campaign can register enough new voters in the Peach State - and it has already registered more than 300,000 in Georgia - then it believes that the state could still be in play, since former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr's libertarian candidacy could steal some of the Republican vote. Bill Clinton won Georgia in 1992 after Ross Perot drew a significant number of votes from George H.W. Bush. But for Obama to pull off a similar coup, he would need an increase in Democratic voters of at least 15% from 2004 - a whopping number that, even with an unprecedented 30 offices...
...tragic fate of Lehman Brothers, this seems like a perfect time for foreign investors to get some exposure to U.S. real estate. For if something were to go wrong, history suggests some sort of bailout will protect them, and none other than the American taxpayer will foot the bill. Despite all the talk about avoiding further moral hazard, the hefty bailout package will create nothing but more incentives for risky investors to seek sweet returns. This a tragic consequence of the package; but as long as Americans homeowners refuse to accept losses on home equity in the short run, they...