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...standards at all, and anyone could list." A month later, Roel Campos, a commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock-market regulator, branded AIM a "casino," with 30% of new firms "gone in a year." (He later said his remarks had been taken out of context.) To the LSE, such talk is just sour grapes. U.S. markets should accept that "the flow of capital is global and will seek out the most efficient and effective market places," Clara Furse, the exchange's chief, wrote in the Financial Times in late March...
...CONTEXT Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams, leaders of Northern Ireland's most hard-line Protestant and Roman Catholic parties, sat side by side for the first time ever and agreed to forge a joint platform for government...
...lozenge-shaped amygdala, an emotional center involved in recognizing expressions and tones of voice. But with the patients, the same images caused less activation of the amygdala and more of several other areas including the hippocampus, which encodes and retrieves memories. "Instead of processing a particular face in the context of right now, the brain is basically going back into its filing cabinet and picking out previous experiences, which is not an efficient way for it to work," says Malhi, chair of psychological medicine at the University of Sydney. While patients' brains over-activated in response to fear, they under...
...black people were so appalled when Frank Hargrove, a Virginia legislator who is white, said last month "black citizens should get over" slavery. That notion invalidates the black reality. It essentially says: The discrimination you feel and I benefit from is an illusion - or at least has no historical context...
Before heading out to engage in pre-Housing Day rituals, 30 freshmen congregated in Ticknor Lounge early last night to participate in the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations’s fourth annual “Block Party,” a discussion of diversity in the context of blocking groups, the Houses and the Harvard campus. The event’s co-director, Teddy L. Styles ’07, also announced a new Foundation initiative to promote its mission of improving relations among racial and ethnic groups at Harvard. The Foundation Associates Program will consist...