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...that students have returned to campus, it is essential that we not forget the challenges facing the lowest-paid members of our community. Students must remain vigilant of the fact that the university seems to deliberately deceive us on issues involving budget cuts. It is apparent that administrators were merely waiting for students to leave campus before beginning layoffs. Although I had been warned of this, I still felt deceived by leaders of my university, who, weeks before, had shooed away concerns about layoffs by insisting that nothing had been decided and that we need not continue to pester them...
...Wells imagined a war of the worlds in which alien invaders left the capital city of the world's greatest empire in ruins," Ferguson says as he searches through the bombed ruins of an ancient castle. "Most people think of his book as a work of science fiction. In fact, it was a work of astonishing prescience...
...Sept. 8 news article "Stimulus Grants Boost Research" incorrectly stated that Harvard had received around $18 million in grant awards from the federal government through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. In fact, that figure only accounted for funds from the National Institutes of Health. The overall figure was approximately $40 million, similar to that received by Yale...
...Wall Street argues, albeit on weak ground, that the new model does in fact learn from the lessons of the last decade. In the mortgage-backed security market, subprime loans functioned as adversely selected “lemons,” and the mortgages most likely to fail were the ones most likely to compromise the integrity of the securitized assets. In this new market of life insurance securities, it is instead the healthy insurance candidates who are the liability. This time, to offer life insurance to the physically unhealthy—in other words, the “subprime?...
...intends to honor it. "I have no intention of disclosing any proprietary information," he says. For-profit health-insurance-industry practices Potter talks about, like rescission - dropping expensive-to-cover policyholders on grounds that they failed to disclose pre-existing health conditions - are not secrets. This is, in fact, how private health insurers make profits. In Potter's view, these practices just need more exposure, which he's happy to provide - on cable news or through his well-read blog for the nonpartisan public-interest group the Center for Media and Democracy...