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...Musical category is also the consolation spot for actors nudged out of the more competitive Drama department; so James Franco, surely worthy of a Supporting Actor citation as Harvey Milk's lover and friend, instead was a Comedy finalist as the dope dealer in the Judd Apatow-produced Pineapple Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awards Fever: Film Critics vs. the Golden Globes | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Though it’s well known that humans express phenotypes for characteristics like brown hair or blue eyes, far fewer people know that tuberculosis also generates different phenotypic states...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates Grants Fund Research | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...bank products abnormally high. At first glance, that's fantastic news for consumers who are finding CDs that yield 4% and money-market accounts that pay 3%. But the competition for money - which will surely intensify as new bank holding companies like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and American Express amp up efforts to attract deposits - is also squeezing banks' profit margins, further straining an already weak industry and stressing smaller banks, many of which didn't go hog wild making risky loans in the first place. "Higher rates are a short-term fix," says Camden Fine, president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CD-Rate Scramble: Better for Depositors than for Banks | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...more competition is on the horizon. In the past two months, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Raymond James, GMAC, American Express and business financier CIT have all applied to convert into bank holding companies, partly in order to be able to get access to cheap funding through deposits. GE Capital, the finance arm of GE, is planning on doubling its deposit base, which it garners through broker-sold CDs, to $81 billion next year. Goldman Sachs is on track to open an online bank. Morgan Stanley, which already has $36 billion in deposits, is selling billions of dollars' worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CD-Rate Scramble: Better for Depositors than for Banks | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...mean to attack the usefulness of the fee or the organization that it funds. The UC is a wonderful and necessary resource for College students. However, its legitimacy rests on the fact that students willingly support it. How can we express our satisfaction or displeasure with our student government if the one means of doing so—the payment of the UC fee—is already decided by a third party? The UC should show enough appreciation for their unique representative position to realize that the optional fee should be truly optional...

Author: By Matthew H. Ghazarian | Title: Opting Out of Opt-Outs | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

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