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...record numbers of applications collide head-on with deep budget cuts, on Nov. 20 the nation's largest university system announced plans to decrease its student body by at least 10,000 students and to cap enrollment at all 23 of its campuses. Says Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education, a lobbying firm that represents 1,800 colleges and universities: "What you're seeing in California is a double witching hour." Cal State, which experienced a 20% increase in first-year applications this fall, is the first public university to cap enrollment since the market meltdown in September...
...school year. "Those are the students that America needs to reach out to, because they are going to be the workforce of the 21st century," says Reed. "And they will probably be the group that will be the most at risk" of getting squeezed out by an enrollment cap. (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...proposals include a plan to tax nations based on their carbon emissions, two versions of an international cap-and-trade system, and the idea of abandoning one over-arching international climate accord in favor of a system of more specific agreements...
...Another possible suitor could be US Bancorp. The Minneapolis bank is one of the nation's largest, but it has little presence on the East Coast, where Citi is big player. U.S. Bancorp has a market cap of $40 billion, about double the size of Citigroup. What's more, U.S. Bancorp chief financial officer Andrew Cecere recently told the Wall Street Journal said that the firm was interested in making a large acquisition...
...Podesta and other CAP staff have made clear that they do not want the organization to become an arm of the Obama Administration, but there will be clear pressures . "Much of the change is yet to happen," says Wartell, who is running CAP until Podesta completes the transition and returns. "The idea here is to be a think tank. It's not to be a government is waiting. We created this institution to be here 30 years from...