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...bottom line. Gone is the old mantra - get to a million users, then worry about how you'll monetize. We're back to a nuclear winter, a season that tends to arrive in the bread basket of innovation every four years or so. But this time, the pundits say, expect a long, cold winter that could last five years...
...experts in and out of government expect bank failures to accelerate. Banks that are too big to go under, like Citibank and Bank of America, could fail but will stay alive in one form or another - through a bailout or government-backed sale, for example. But plenty of medium and smaller banks are going to disappear or be divvied up by creditors. And the longer Paulson's new capital-infusion plan takes to get up and running, the higher the likelihood of failure will...
...quarter as much. That absurdly broad range, which falls in line with other volatility barometers, is indicative of how haywire stocks have been acting. "You saw that kind of volatility in the Brazilian and Argentinean markets in the beginning of the 1990s," says Engle. "You don't really expect to see it in developed economies...
...Such were those entrusted to introduce the class of 2012 to Harvard’s take on racial understanding. As you would expect, the readings discuss the thoughts of those with a wide range of opinions and backgrounds, from proponents of race-based affirmative action to partisans of the class-based variety, from a “self described ‘forty-nine-year-old Black lesbian feminist socialist mother of two’” to a member of a “Black Nationalist church with a Pan Africanist philosophy.” While a couple...
...prevent property crimes. “Less than one per cent of our burglaries are forced-door, and it’s simply too easy to go around this campus and find an open door,” he said. Ellison said that while the administration does not expect students to intervene in potentially dangerous situations, it is important that students contact HUPD immediately about crimes or intruders in dormitories. —Staff writer Alex M. McLeese can be reached at amcleese@fas.harvard.edu...