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Both the Harvard Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club see Brown’s victory as a signal to similarly shift their focus towards the upcoming 2010 elections cycle...
Depending on the interests of its members, the Harvard Democrats plan to focus on issues such as healthcare, education reform, and climate change, according to Berkenfeld...
...these securitized transactions were considered a legitimate business strategy by investors, who typically focus on the cash flow from these deals, not the fine points on how cash is generated. "These could have all been brothels or sweatshops underlying them, and nobody would know that either," says Cecala, who notes that "one of the reasons for buying securities ... is supposedly you don't have to worry about any of that; someone else is supposed to have signed off on the legality of the transactions, the business practices, everything...
Terwindt's study was based on phone interviews with 977 men and women from an extended family in the southwest of the Netherlands, and the researchers were smart to focus on just that family and not the wider population. Rooting out genetic links to disease is notoriously difficult and often leads to premature conclusions that later wind up being debunked. One problem is that complex disorders like migraines can be caused by multiple genes as well as by other biochemical and environmental factors...
With such speedy reconstruction, there are obviously questions about the quality of building. At the same time, there has been an intense focus on controlling graft. Despite allegations that corruption led to the shoddy construction of schools in the first place, China hasn't punished anyone for any wrongdoing that occurred before the earthquake. Grieving parents who protested over the deaths of their children in collapsed schools were silenced by payments and by threats of punishment if they continued their agitation. Officials have declared that the extent of the destruction was due to the intensity of the temblor, not substandard...