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...even as oil prices soared and given its union unsustainably generous deals on salary and benefits. "I don't believe this is a good idea, to take $25 billion and give it to the three major car companies, which I think have a business plan that's doomed to fail," Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, told Fox News Sunday, adding that Republican members are not wild about the Democrats' demand that the Big Three present their plans to Congress. "The idea that you would take three failed car companies, bring [a plan] to 535 members of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Auto Bailout May Wind Up on Obama's Plate | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...like the feeling of your parents breaking up when banks fail. It makes you feel insecure.' ?Anya Hindmarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...community. Even with the SFJB in use, general issues with the Ad Board’s structure must continue to be addressed by the Ad Board Review Committee. Proponents of the current Ad Board system maintain that its educational nature differentiates it from a traditional judicial body, yet they fail to recognize that the resources available to students, no matter how generous, are meaningless unless students are properly appraised of these “rights”—something difficult to ensure when the primary source of information, Resident Deans, are often the very same individuals who inform...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Board Games | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

Part of the defensive response on the part of the speakers is that they have had a history of interacting with people who are offended to be confused with others of their race. This indignation on the listener’s part is also misplaced. People of all races fail at identifying ethnic minorities. When I was traveling in Tanzania last summer, my two Caucasian traveling companions, a redhead and a brunette, were constantly frustrated that many Tanzanians couldn’t differentiate between them. They didn’t understand that the marker of hair color was overlooked...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: What’s in a Wrong Name? | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

...save Citi when other banks are going under? Citigroup, with $160 billion in revenue last year, more than 300,000 employees and tendrils in every corner of finance, both domestically and abroad, is the poster child for an institution that is allegedly "too big to fail." A much smaller financial institution, Lehman Brothers, was allowed to go down - and shock waves hit corners of the financial world, like money-market mutual funds, that no one had anticipated. The fear is not only of pain inflicted but also of unpredictability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Questions (and Answers) About Citi's Bailout | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

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