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...added that it might be a detriment for FAS if older professors stay on for too long, preventing young junior professors from being hired...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Profs May Be Offered Buyout | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...These are only a few of the issues to be fixed with credit default swaps. Although they are not innately bad instruments and can provide much-needed liquidity, when left unregulated they can be used in ways that cause tremendous detriment to our financial system. It is not surprising that investor Warren Buffet refers to credit derivatives as “financial weapons of mass destruction...

Author: By George Hayward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Regulating Credit Default Swaps | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...effect of venue-shopping, contends LoPucki, is that courts wind up more often ruling in favor of companies - to the detriment of creditors and labor unions. "Whoever gets this case must rule for management, or else they'll never get another corporate case," he says. Others aren't convinced the outcome is so nefarious, though the system certainly does give particular judges more than their fair share of influence over bankruptcy case law. "You normally expect various decisions through various courts, which creates the opportunity for the development of the law," says Jeffrey Morris, a law professor at the University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM's Potential Bankruptcy: Shopping for a Venue | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...unifying gloss that cricket gives to a nation like Pakistan is far too thin. Pakistan's doom is that religion continues to be the primary basis of identity for this artificially created state, to the detriment of everything else. While the state champions a rigid sense of identity, the land reforms and economic, social and legal reforms that are critical to nurturing democracy and development have been totally ignored by feudal lords masquerading as politicians and hell-bent on retaining power. East Pakistan split away to become Bangladesh; given half a chance, Baluchistan or some other restive regions would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...dictated by the California Education Code, teachers are fired based on seniority, so that the last hired are the first to go. This system of indiscriminately cutting from the bottom up means that schools are likely to lose many of their bright, young, and energetic teachers, to the detriment of their students...

Author: By Adrienne Y. Lee | Title: Scalpels, Not Hatchets | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

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