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Clinton: Because I did not want to have a big debate here about whether this was some back-door way to eventually have middle-class people paying even more money for a welfare state. I think it would have been a bogus debate...
...suggestion that there is somehow less risk in "real" investments than in "surreal" derivative products defies logic. The implication that there is some sort of "crisis" lurking in the wings is similarly bogus. You have only to look at recent history to see there is no market that has a monopoly on risk or fails to appeal to human greed. What is troublesome is the notion that we must be protected from ourselves and cannot bear the consequences of our individual decisions. The last thing we need is ill-informed legislators decreeing some misguided form of capitalism in which people...
...this claim is bogus. Other universities hire and fire the independent money management firms they employ all the time. Indeed, the biggest problem with Harvard's system is that it doesn't do just that--HMC's top employees have virtually tenured positions...
...administrators and the council share a common blind spot when it comes to the issue of calendar reform: it's a bogus issue. Only an increased emphasis on teaching will really improve the lives of undergraduates at Harvard. Juggling vacation dates is merely a convenient way to hide from dealing with the real issues at stake. The council is excited about the wrong cause; the administration is entirely too smug...
...students aren't buying it. "No, it's not the kiss of death, but it's a peck-on-the-check of death. Sort of a whisper in your ear," Lump observes wryly. "The whole idea that a B+ is a 'great grade'--that's so bogus... That's just laughable. An A is a 'great grade.' The B+, that's a way that [graders] can flex and seem kind of tough...