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...list of people and institutions to blame for the financial crisis would include credit-rating agencies - the companies that assign letter grades to everything from General Electric's bonds to Malaysia's sovereign debt, indicating the chances that investors will lose money. The CEOs of the three largest agencies - Moody's, Standard and Poor's and Fitch - were assailed by Congress in October for the way their firms made record profits while raising few, if any, red flags about how massively risky mortgage-related securities had become...
...data to mine for their work. From 1993 to 2001 and then again from 2003 to 2006, the CDC conducted two nationwide surveys of a total of 2.4 million people in more than 3,100 counties across all 50 states. Respondents were asked to think about their general mental state, including "stress, depression and problems with emotion," and then asked how many days in the past month their mental health was generally not good...
...curriculum reduces the department’s many tracks to two—a language-intensive track and a civilizations track. It also does away with the long-standing tradition of general exams for seniors based on a required reading list, while adding a junior tutorial to prepare students to write theses in subjects that may venture beyond literature...
...addition to its current courses, the department will offer more freshman seminars, 100-level courses, and eventually, General Education courses on texts in translation that will be appropriate for both concentrators and non-concentrators. The new curriculum also includes a secondary field focused on civilization studies that does not require any Greek or Latin language classes...
...teach the history of Greek literature without Euripides’ Medea always on the reading list,” Schiefsky said, adding that in the past, courses that included texts not on the required list for general exams were guaranteed low enrollments...