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...deal as a populist rallying cry. This is compounded by the fact that Paulson just happened to lead one of the biggest market players, Goldman Sachs, before coming to Treasury. In that role, he acknowledges, he placed a lot of the bad debt that the now defunct Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were peddling. "Yeah, I and everyone else placed Fannie and Freddie debt," he says, but "We didn't create this system and this was a mess that had to be cleaned up." He also acknowledges that he put the former Fannie Mae head, Jim Johnson, on the board...
...College’s inadequate response to meeting students’ academic needs during the interim. The result: beleaguered upperclassmen with nowhere to turn to fulfill Core requirements and equally frustrated freshmen who are forced to choose between a meager selection of Gen Ed courses and the defunct Core. No student at any point in his or her academic career is immune to this gross deficiency as the College struggles to reconcile the general requirements portion of its curriculum.Instead of a robust selection of exciting new Gen Ed courses for freshmen and a diverse and solid group of Cores...
...three major local bookstores have participated in this censorship process. I have mentioned Harvard Book Store’s disinvitation of Finkelstein. In 2002, Hillel Stavis, owner of the now-defunct Wordsworth bookstore in Harvard Square, played a prominent role in a highly damaging donor boycott of public radio station WBUR, on the grounds that it allegedly broadcast pro-Palestinian points of view too freely. Following my December 2007 lecture at Harvard Law School about the context of my FAS motion, in which I referred to Stavis as having “led” the boycott, he screamed...
...pages sit stories about Batman, Spider-Man, World War II adventurers, and any number of other action-packed tales from the world of comic books.For instance, there’s a yellowed copy of “World’s Finest”—a now-defunct series about team-ups between Batman and Superman—from 1970, containing a story called “DIG NOW, DIE LATER!” On the cover, the two superheroes are telling their sidekicks to dig their own graves, while Batman wields a rifle, ready to kill them...
...undergraduate, and was accompanied by a paragraph detailing Chadbourne’s involvement in student government. While at Harvard, Chadbourne was a UC representative for three terms and served as chair of the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) in 2005. Chadbourne said that his decision to name the now-defunct award for himself was not motivated by self-promotion, as some have suggested over the past few days. “I just wanted to put my name behind it,” Chadbourne said. Chadbourne said he plans to continue to look for other ways to recognize student advocacy, though...