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...imagine that would be a bit difficult to follow. The language is a bit antiquated. It's almost like time travel. You realize this is almost exactly what was being done 200 years...
...Chrysler carry smaller debt loads than Ford, the advantage seems rather slender, given Ford's rising stature in the eyes of consumers. A new survey by Consumer Reports shows that potential buyers prefer Ford products to those of either GM or Chrysler. Further, in the latest initial quality studies done by J.D. Power & Associates, Ford was tied statistically with Toyota in terms of overall quality - it's best showing ever...
...federal regulators in the years before the crisis also played a key role in allowing things to get so bad. From ill-considered deregulation of banking and derivatives to over-the-top encouragement of home ownership, Washington's fingerprints were all over the crisis. Almost nothing has been done so far to right these wrongs, or otherwise rein in the excesses of the financial system. Which brings us to lesson No. 3: It's really hard for a democracy to make big changes in the absence of crisis...
Budget cuts have swept through campus faster than news of a party during Freshman Week. But apparently the administration didn’t make it to the end of “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” because they’ve still done a lot of spending on stuff nobody really needs or cares about. FM presents some of the areas where Harvard is still losing money like a trip to the COOP. 15) The Polynesian dancers at the recent Aloha Harvard event. Although apparently we didn’t pay them enough to do the hula...
...Granted, Wolf’s militant excoriations have significant cultural resonance, even to women who aren’t convinced that their stilettos mean they’ve done something wrong. Despite our society’s emphatic assertion that an objective standard of beauty exists, the concept is actually grounded in female inadequacy. Regardless of how many hours, dollars, and brain cells women spend, there will always be an un-pluckable hair, an un-erasable wrinkle, and an un-toneable ounce of cellulite to eliminate. The pursuit of beauty is eminently frustrating (and eminently profitable) for the very reason...