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Concerning Justin Fox's "triple-A trouble" [March 24]: Standard & Poor's ratings bring an independent voice and transparency to the market to help facilitate access to capital. We have rigorous policies in place to support the independence of our ratings--which are based on consistently applied criteria--and we recently announced additional measures. A triple-A rating represents our opinion that a security or issuer has extremely strong capacity to meet its financial commitments. While the valuation of many triple-A structured securities has fallen heavily, very few triple-A securities (less than 0.1% originally given that rating...
...travel sites on the Web is Tablet Hotels. The Tablet staff selects hotels, but guests?and only confirmed hotel guests?can rate them. If a hotel isn't being rated favorably, it's removed from the guide. Top-10 lists abound, and it's easy to search hotels by criteria like agenda (great food, skiing) and landscape (jungle). Cool feature: music playlists compiled by hotels to help you get a feel for the mood of the locale...
...been imposed upon Christians since the Enlightenment," Benedict said in a speech to officials of the Roman Curia. "On the one hand, one must counter a dictatorship of positivist reason that excludes God from the life of the community and from public organizations, thereby depriving man of his specific criteria of judgment. On the other, one must welcome the true conquests of the Enlightenment, human rights and especially the freedom of faith and its practice, and recognize these also as being essential elements for the authenticity of religion...
...when our main exports are entertainment and democracy, comedy is practically a function of the presidential office. George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for the same reason. Americans have many bizarre criteria by which they select their next Commander in Chief, and a sense of humor is definitely one of them. Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry...
...study was conducted by a panel of “walkability experts” who ranked the 10 largest cities in every state on a set of 14 criteria, including the percentage of residents who walk to work, the number of parks, and the relative safety of the city streets...