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...Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock-market regulator, branded AIM a "casino," with 30% of new firms "gone in a year." (He later said his remarks had been taken out of context.) To the LSE, such talk is just sour grapes. U.S. markets should accept that "the flow of capital is global and will seek out the most efficient and effective market places," Clara Furse, the exchange's chief, wrote in the Financial Times in late March...
...maintain this level in the face of greater anticipated flows down the Rhine River (thanks partly to accelerated snowmelt in the Alps), the Dutch are radically revising traditional flood-management thinking. Instead of trying to contain floods, they will accommodate the extra water flow by allowing predesignated areas to flood. The strategy is called Living with Water. Near Nijmegen, the oldest town in Holland, a sparsely populated strip of land that is home to farms and a nature reserve will be allowed to flood to spare the more heavily populated areas downstream. Birds in the nature preserve can fly away...
...American officers believe that within weeks they can kill or disperse insurgents in the valley, strangling the flow of fighters and weapons into Baqubah and Muqdadiyah. The retaking of those two towns may require much more time. Siegrist says clearing operations in Baqubah could take months and require another influx of U.S. forces, and Sutherland, the commanding officer in the province, says he's mulling over making a request for more soldiers...
...analysis of Southern thinkers emphasizes that many intellectuals became arch-defenders of the Confederate system to gain the status that did not naturally flow to Southern men of letters. Hammond’s intellectual efforts gave the governorship of South Carolina and a Senate seat. Scholars are motivated by many things, many of which are admirable and some of which are not. Harvard is well served by the fact that Faust has spent more than 30 years on the motives of thinkers...
...That’ll be good for some people,” he said. “But for the other 4,800 people trying to get to the airport, UC Rides will be the best way.” —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...