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...Senate Democratic leaders are struggling to prevent their members from passing a Resolution of Disapproval of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, which would prevent the second half of the emergency fund from flowing to the Treasury Department in the next two weeks. (See a bailout report card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Urges Congress Not to Block the Bailout | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...Citigroup was never a real company, from the day it was formed until today. With four huge business units and dozens of operations in scores of countries, the notion that a consumer-credit-card operation under a common roof with a corporate-lending business should be helpful to either business was ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Citigroup Never Mattered | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

Back in the day, a good report card earned you a parental pat on the back, but now it could be money in your pocket. Experiments with cash incentives for students have been catching on in public-school districts across the country, and so has the debate over whether they are a brilliant tool for hard-to-motivate students or bribery that will destroy any chance of fostering a love of learning. Either way, a rigorous new study - one of relatively few on such pay-for-performance programs - found that the programs get results: cash incentives help low-income students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Students Be Paid for Good Grades? | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...trillion-dollar deficit, you might calculate how much money that represents per person in the U.S. One trillion dollars divided by 300 million Americans comes out to $3,333. Then you search for a useful comparison. A convenient - though perhaps unsettling - comparison is to the amount of credit-card debt carried by the average person in this country. That figure is $3,245. "So a good way of thinking about government debt financing is that it's similar to what the average person is doing," says Camerer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Understand a Trillion-Dollar Deficit | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...software program called Identity Finder that scans for the presence of high risk information, such as social security numbers and credit card numbers, is currently being installed on most central administration computers, according to Robert Cahill, the University Information Systems director of support services. According to guidelines released by Central Administration Information Technology, administrative computers must not store what they deem high-risk, confidential information “in any way relating to Harvard or Harvard sponsored activities on any individual user computer or portable storage device.” The software is being installed “to make...

Author: By Ellen X. Yan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE NEWS IN BRIEF | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

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