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Lots of trouble has been hitting lately, with private-equity loans turning sour, AAA-rated subprime mortgage securities turning into junk, and all manner of other bets going bad. This ought to make it easier to figure out just who in the money business knows what he's doing. Which explains why the just-completed earnings-reporting season for banks and other financial firms was the most informative in years. Not to mention entertaining, especially during the usually soporific conference calls with analysts in which executives discuss their results...
...candidate in the search. Sophia C. Sakellariadis ’11, one of the two freshmen on the undergraduate committee, said the committee’s conversation with Smith about the qualities most desirable in a dean expanded into a discussion about how to make the college transition easier for freshmen. “There was a lot of talk about the accessibility of deans,” she said. Nicole A. Buckley ’08, an Eliot House representative, said students also suggested to Smith that he consider candidates from outside the College because they would bring...
...Blue Card - colored to match the European Union's flag - is part of a plan to make it easier for skilled foreign workers get jobs in the 27 member states of the E.U. The combination residence permit and work visa would allow holders and their families to live, work and travel within the Union. If agreed by member state governments, it could be introduced by 2009, alongside a global advertising campaign to draw in qualified migrants...
...Frigid temperatures are no easier on the hitters. Jeff Conine, the recently retired 17-year vet who played for a Florida Marlins in that '97 series, remembers his contacts fogging up in the Cleveland cold. "I had to keep blinking to keep my eyes moist," he says. "This is a very bad thing. It was almost like a film was over my eyes." The eyes of other players tend to tear up in the frost, which makes if harder for them to see the ball...
...Conine insists that the World Series adrenaline makes it easier for players to block out the cold than it would be for an early April regular season game. Still, "it's pretty miserable," he notes. Baseball can only hope that bad weather doesn't end up putting its TV viewers in the same kind of mood...