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...It’s not a fair comparison because we have not built warehouses for poor people,” he said. “While I think that we have learned over time the importance and the potential value of a mixed income community, that is not to say that every single street or building has to have mixed income...
...flick, a trailer for Culture and Belief 11: “Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe,” plays across the screen, narrated by Shigehisa Kuriyama, a professor of East Asian studies. As the name implies, the class is a historical comparison of the body and medicine in East Asia and Europe, and its approach is anything but traditional. Kuriyama jettisons the traditional required term paper in favor of newer pedagogical measures—making movies and podcasts. The approach may mark a new path for General Education at Harvard. THE BODY, REDISCOVERED
Matthews, Chris •observation by that "the comparison between [Palin] and Hillary Clinton is the comparison between an igloo and the Empire State Building...
Looking desperately for a redoubt, some Republicans are returning to the last refuge of incumbents: pork-barrel spending. McConnell now claims to have delivered $500 million in taxpayer funds to his state in the past year for projects that range from riverfront development to mobile health-care units. By comparison, he says, the most pork any freshman Democratic Senator delivered to a state last year was $16 million. "This is an election about whether or not we want Kentucky to go back to ... the back row, to go back to being a small state with little or no influence...
...problem is that other moves the government has made to render bank debt safer has had the unintended consequence of making Fannie and Freddie's bonds less safe by comparison. So Fannie and Freddie's investors have to be compensated for the increased risk. In particular, traders say, the move in the past week by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to temporary offer unlimited deposit insurance for non-interest bearing accounts and guarantee roughly $1.4 trillion in new unsecured bank debt has caused a rush of selling of the bonds of Fannie and Freddie. That's because the FDIC...