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...offering the other 99% of Britons a chance to run, The Jury Team intends to boost representation of people from outside traditional party ranks and end the tribal politics that they believe dominates Parliament; currently, only five Independents sit in the 646-member House of Commons. To bolster its image as the anti-party party, the Jury Team has no manifesto and espouses no central policy. Its name, organizers say, reflects that juries made up of regular people can make decisions about complex problems with integrity and without any vested interests - qualities the Team feels carry more weight than does...
Instead of one coordinated program to bolster the economy, financial, and credit systems there are a number of piecemeal solutions. Freddie Mac (FRE) yesterday said it would need $30 billion in new funding. AIG (AIG) got billions of dollars in additional assistance and a restructuring of its obligation to the government just last week. The Wall Street Journal is reportingthat several large insurance companies may need substantial aid. Those who may put their hands out include MetLife (MET), The Hartford (HIG), and Prudential...
...with few options left to save the banks, government officials might see a change to mark-to-market rules as the most promising way remaining to bolster the banks and their bottom lines. What's more, relaxing the accounting requirement might make it easier for Treasury to iron out a plan to remove toxic assets from bank balance sheets...
...starving artists at Harvard. Just over a week after University officials announced that the endowment—the largest in higher education—fell a precipitous 22 percent in a four-month period, the University-wide Task Force on the Arts called for ambitious plans to bolster the place of arts on campus.The committee proposed the construction of major new arts facilities and sweeping changes to the undergraduate curriculum and graduate programs. Yet with a projected 30 percent decline in endowment value by the end of June, Harvard administrators are slashing budgets and curtailing University activities—including...
...Administrators at Kim’s future college also feel confident that he will bolster both research and teaching efforts...