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...Answering the second question - repairing bank balance sheets - is neither simple nor clear-cut. What is clear is that the capital needed will not come (entirely) from private hands. Banks and policymakers will essentially have a few different options: banks can issue more common stock; policymakers can push more conversions of preferred shares (or liabilities) into tangible common stock of the troubled banks; or more capital can be injected using taxpayers money, effectively taking control and (partially) nationalizing the banks...
Besides the expert copy-editing at the Chicago Maroon, things aren't looking too good at UChicago. Each of the three divisions have taken a 25% budget cut, which has hit the smaller humanities departments especially hard, since the sciences already enjoy substantial outside funding. Their Slavic department is dying, with at most one graduate student matriculating next year. Ultimately the choice for the humanities division came down to hiring new faculty or accepting more graduate students--and they decided to focus on the former, reducing the size of their incoming graduate school class...
...Open the door for me and walk on the street-side of the sidewalk and, baby, I’m yours What you miss most from the ‘90s: Boy bands. Nick Carter will always know the shape of my heart. Your Gossip Girl crush: NATE. Clean-cut hottie with a body...
According to a CEB e-mail, the tournament was cut primarily due to lowered participation. There was also the issue of some Houses allowing a small group of people to control the armies of non-participating students. (That’s fair—we at FlyBy definitely recall relinquishing our fas emails last year in bewildered apathy and then promptly forgetting about the entire thing.) Plus, running Turf takes money and manpower to implement. Basically, it sounds like the CEB just got a little battle-weary...
...ordinary Americans. But Republicans know their best hope for recovery, whether they say it like Limbaugh or merely think it, is Democratic failure. Now that Democrats control both Congress and the White House, hubris is a real possibility; it's hard to imagine Obama floating his pitiful plan to cut $100 million in waste - a mere 0.0025% of federal spending - if he had to worry about a formidable opposition...