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...fallacy, says one Wall Street veteran I talked to, is that anyone who occupies one of those golden chairs - global equities, say, or convertible bonds - is almost guaranteed to bring in business and get paid for it. "I could put a monkey in that chair and get a certain level of business," he said. With 46,000 financial jobs having been lost in New York City already, demand is falling, so the risk of losing talent to rivals is declining. The bigger question that should be asked of these big earners, says the Wall Street vet, is this: What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama's Executive-Pay Limits Tame Wall Street? | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...That is a reasonable and biologically plausible explanation for why we might be seeing a more precipitous drop in breast cancer than we might expect from the normal lead time for reduction of malignancies," says Dr. Jonathan Berek, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halting Hormone Therapy Reduces Breast Cancer Risk Quickly | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

With promises to push for greater budgeting transparency and to accommodate a wider range of campus tastes, Kevin M. Mee ’10 and James A. McFadden ’10 were elected as chair and vice-chair of the the 20-person College Events Board Monday night...

Author: By Edward-michael Dussom, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Student Leaders Elected to Run Fun | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...were in the middle of a broccoli field covered in mud,” said Alison M. Forsyth, a research assistant in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a co-chair of the project...

Author: By Niha S Jain, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Bring Water, Hope | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...sight last summer as the media attention grew. A sympathetic friend reimbursed him for the dowry of about $250 that he had paid to Nujood's father. Asked by a reporter in Paris if she hopes to meet her Prince Charming one day, Nujood sat back in her chair, crossed her arms and said bluntly, "I no longer think about marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 10-Year-Old Divorcée Takes Paris | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

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