Word: fellowes
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...have banks stress-testing all the time, so there is a cost-benefit analysis to be done," says Martin Bailey, who was a chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton and is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "But if you can make the tests efficient, then I think they should become a part of the arsenal of regulation, particularly of the larger financial institutions...
...experiences. They were more generous, more other-thinking. They had had a transformation of character. Was it scientifically verifiable? No. But it was good for them. As one of them, a comedy writer named Jeff Schimmel, said to me: "It's sad to think that my love for my fellow man is due to a temporal lobe gone awry. But I don't really care. I'm happier and a better person because of this...
Much like community dinners, barbecues, and stein clubs, formals provide a culminating opportunity to eat from chocolate fountains, renew your yearly account with Keezer’s, and enjoy a night with your fellow Housemates. Formals need not be entirely House-exclusive, but people from that house should make up the bulk of the crowd. It’s a chance for new members of the House to meet and get acquainted with their soon-to-be neighbors and for everybody else to renew their House pride. When House formals are sold out to the highest bidder, they revert back...
...Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have given communion to pro-choice politicians while letting Italian church leaders take the role of lecturing those Catholics on their dissent from church teaching. And this is particularly true of the Vatican's relationships with foreign leaders, whom the Pope views as fellow heads of state. Some observers have interpreted Cardinal George's Oval Office meeting with Obama on St. Patrick's Day to talk about abortion as an emissary visit, speculating that the cardinal was sent by Benedict...
...detention and carry a sentence of up to five years. Yettaw, 53, reportedly stayed for two nights in her central Rangoon compound after arriving unexpectedly from the lake complaining of cramps and exhaustion. He also faces prison time. A lawyer for Suu Kyi called Yettaw a "nutty fellow" and says she pleaded with him to leave. Some observers say the military is seizing on the incident to prolong Suu Kyi's detention and discourage pro-democracy forces ahead of next year's elections. (See pictures of Burma after Cyclone Nargis...