Word: dollars
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...increased revenue from the fare hike will be used to “keep the transit system running at optimum levels and pay the interest on the MBTA’s enormous, multi-billion dollar debt,” Pesaturo wrote...
...this is not simply an issue of style. As the recent multi-million-dollar Russian reform fraud scandal involving his close friend and fellow economist Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82 illustrates, Summers also has an ethics problem. This is perhaps most starkly evident in the way that he worked to maintain a fortress of secrecy around him while employing Washington-style political tactics as a way to embarrass or humiliate colleagues. In Summers’ inner circle, economics is about power rather than principle. And this debilitating corporate worldview—where market values...
...good ones—about the various forces that led to Summers’ resignation. Where faculty members see a tyrant dismissive of their work and opinions, students see a leader who seems genuinely interested in their lives. When professors recoil at the sight of Larry Summers signing dollar bills, undergraduates clamor for more autographs. To faculty, Summers is an arrogant power-broker; to students, he is an accessible celebrity. After all, this is a man who visits the Houses, dances to hip hop at first-year social events, and fools around on the sidelines of home football games. More...
...Paul Haggis, who conceived, co-wrote and directed Crash--and who wrote the script for last year's Oscar winner, Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby--dismisses the anti-Canada theory. "This time of year," he says, "everyone tries hard to come up with angles, to make life interesting for us. The truth is that I am thrilled to be nominated in such terrific company. All five films are passion pieces. The filmmakers took big risks, and they all deserve to be rewarded...
...wording is so bland and buried so deep within a 324-page budget document that almost no one would notice that a multibillion-dollar scam is going on. Not the members of Congress voting for it and certainly not the taxpayers who will get fleeced by it. And that is exactly the idea...