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...just break up the biggest firms? I'm a Republican and a former Wall Streeter and don't favor government intervention in markets. But I can see where breaking up the banks would be a positive for the free markets. We want a system where firms are able to take risks, but we have to protect ourselves from the risks eating us alive, which can happen when the risks are concentrated in just a few banks. Breakups would distribute risk over a greater number of players and would probably be good for the banks as well. Most financial firms...
...music about rock music, the intention to step back a bit seems clear. And throughout “Transference,” the elements that made its predecessor an instant classic—horns, conventional pop structure, songs with more that two chords—are thrown out in favor of a deliberately unpolished sound recalling the band’s lesser-known 90s work...
...Trekkies, a line first used in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”—than it does about “Sherlock Holmes.” While the former retains its space ships and lasers, the latter exchanges its sense of mystery in favor of wall-to-wall action...
...three and four spots suffered the first losses of the year for Harvard. Trinity’s Nour Baghat got the best of Tiong, taking all three sets for the win, 11-6, 11-7, 11-7. Junior Alisha Mashruwala couldn’t turn the tide in her favor in the second set, falling to the Bantams’ Tehani Guruge...
...much depends on just where the center of gravity in Iran's regime lies in the postelection political landscape. Ahmadinejad spent much of his first term filling positions with allies from the Revolutionary Guard, the élite military force, and they returned the favor by orchestrating the postelection crackdown. It's not clear now just who calls the shots. Also, concerned with the danger posed to the regime's survival by internal strife, hard-liners may be tempted to pick a fight with the West to create a pretext for cracking down harder at home...