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...ride, a movie ticket, or chocolate.” Through this Friday, students passing by the Science Center have been pledging to give up one of these items and donate $3. The money helps to pay escorts for women in Darfur who need to leave their refugee camps to collect firewood, organizers said. The program falls under the umbrella of the Genocide Intervention Network, an organization founded by Swarthmore College students in 2004. “Outside the immediate spheres of these camps there is anarchy,” said McEachern. “It’s where African...
...Mark H. Kuo ’90 helped collect hundreds of student signatures to petition the University to hire an Asian American studies professor. Twenty years later, it’s déjà vu. The University still has no permanent professor in Asian American studies, and the Asian American Association (AAA) is starting yet another campaign to bring the field to Harvard. Despite years of flourishing at other universities, Asian American studies is still struggling to gain traction in Cambridge. The former chair of Harvard’s history department says that a general slowdown in social science...
...Police believe Darwin, 57, staged his death to collect a life insurance policy that would erase mounting debts accrued through his failing apartment rental business. On Saturday, he was charged with life insurance fraud and making false statements to procure a passport. He will appear Monday before a magistrate's court in Hartlepool, near the couple's home in Seaton Carew, in northeastern England. Darwin could face up to 10 years for the fraud charge, a spokesman for the Crown Prosecution service told TIME...
...specialized nature of modern mortgage markets - in which banks and mortgage brokers make the loans, investors buy them, and servicers collect the monthly payments - can make workouts complicated, and right now the system is overwhelmed by the sheer number of loans running into trouble. A study by Moody's in September found that terms were being modified on only 1% of the subprime loans resetting to higher rates this year - and the Mortgage Bankers Association of America reported this morning that the percentage of all mortgage loans in foreclosure at the end of September was, at 1.69%, the highest since...
...necessarily "friendlies, as far as the West is concerned," as one U.S. Congressional staffer puts it. Even U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox, an avowed free trader, has acknowledged that government investment funds could use "the vast amounts of covert information" that their spy agencies collect, making that "the ultimate inside-trading tool...