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...shelf for the children to find. No, we’re the ones to blame, sitting around in dining halls choosing our classes by scorecard, when we ought to be taking a hard look at whether we’ve finally gone over the edge of the academic cliff. And we ought to ask ourselves some serious questions about what, exactly, it is we’re doing here at Harvard the first place.It’s a false reduction to claim that Harvard students are simply lazy. By contrast, this is what makes the whole proposition so puzzling...
...hostility to mergers has become a handicap in a sector where growth and geographical expansion via consolidation is the rule. That position, Mistral continues, means Société Générale has "always been viewed in Europe as being perched on the edge of a cliff, and with very little doubt it will be pushed over the side at the end of this episode...
...heart was heavy, and it burned with remorse," writes Chettri. Soon after she discovers that she's pregnant and that the soldier has fled, Jhuma prepares to kill herself. What might jolt a contemporary reader, though, is her feudal salvation: just as she's about to jump off a cliff, Jhuma is saved by a fat old goatherd who has secretly loved her and promises to care for her forever. She relents, with many "tears...
There's a lot to feel down about this month: the subprime mortgage crisis, stormy, unpredictable weather, rising gas prices, presidential primary free-for-alls. So, it would be easy to believe the theory set forth by Dr. Cliff Arnall, a researcher from Cardiff University, that the third Monday of the month (Jan. 21, this year) - a day he calls Blue Monday - will be our most depressing day of the year. Arnall bases his yearly prediction on a formula he developed, which factors in the weather, consumer debt from holiday spending and failed New Year's resolutions and arrives...
...Mozilo may have led Countrywide over the subprime cliff, but he also constructed a formidable mortgage machine - 1,000 offices in 49 states responsible for 9 million loans worth about $1.5 trillion. Lewis had to figure out whether acquiring it would be worth the legal heartburn, including a shareholders' lawsuit accusing Countrywide's board of improperly helping company executives buy stock. (The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Mozilo's trading activity in Countrywide stock.) In California, some borrowers allege that Countrywide lenders steered them into subprime loans even though they could have qualified for better terms. And the city...