Word: franks
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...extraordinary speech - not because of any rhetorical flourishes, but because it was honest, frank, measured in tone, inclusive and hopeful. I don't know whether it will be sufficient to stem a racial backlash against his candidacy, but he clearly demonstrated today his capacity to lead public opinion and not simply be a slave to it. Indeed, I would say he appeared wise beyond his years and genuinely presidential...
...believes it has found a similarly sordid narrative to plant on the back pages. Thus came the paper’s report last Tuesday that the former jewel of Harvard’s “highly regarded recruiting class,” six-foot-ten Nigerian-born center Frank Ben-Eze, has reneged on his commitment to don Crimson next fall, perhaps in light of the negative attention brought by the Times’ exposure of possible recruiting violations by coach Tommy Amaker.The about-face should work out alright for Ben-Eze, whose high-school coach told the Times...
What all this amounts to, argues Frank Partnoy, a derivatives salesman turned University of San Diego law professor, who is one of the sharpest critics of the ratings status quo, is a "regulatory license" for the ratings agencies. It's certainly a license to print money. Moody's, the lone ratings firm for which data are available, made $702 million in after-tax profit last year, up from $289 million just five years before. Its operating profit margin was a stunning 50% of revenue. By comparison, Google...
...Politicians occasionally survive sexual misconduct, as Clinton did. Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Senator David Vitter of Louisiana both stayed in office despite their prostitution scandals. Spitzer could not because, in the end, "he's got no friends," says Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf, who worked on two of Spitzer's campaigns. "If you're seen as being the source of all moral behavior and then you turn out not to be that way, people are happy about...
Unconfirmed reports by several internet sports blogs are suggesting that 6’10, 230 pound center Frank Ben-Eze has rescinded his commitment to join the Harvard men’s basketball team in the fall...