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...small companies are especially vulnerable because even modest trading can move the stock. Naked short selling "has got to push the price down," says James Angel, associate professor of finance at Georgetown University. He says the rate of short selling has nearly doubled in the past five years, to 36% of all trades. In the same period, assets held in hedge funds, which are active short sellers, more than doubled, to more than $1 trillion...
...barrel of an M-16.” Noting that the moderate democracy of Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, Ibrahim warned against identifying Islam solely with autocratic regimes like that of Saudi Arabia. Ibrahim, who is now a visiting professor at Georgetown University, was forced out of the Malaysian government in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Authorities beat him and imprisoned him on trumped-up sodomy and corruption charges, according to Amnesty International documents. The charges were widely seen as the result of a political battle with then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad...
...Upon returning from Germany, he spent nine years in Washington, D.C. There, he earned a degree in public policy from Georgetown and worked for Congressional and Executive technology think-tanks...
...We’re not happy with our result, but it’s a good test.”The lightweights were the seventh boat to start the course, and they dropped to eighth during the second mile. Though Harvard held a slight edge over Georgetown in the middle mile, the Hoyas surged in the third mile to outlast the Crimson (15:45.32) by just under three seconds at 15:42.52. Penn, last year’s bronze medalist at IRAs, edged out Harvard by 0.15 seconds.“It didn’t feel as fast...
Harvard and Georgetown students convened last night to discuss future union empowerment and the achievement of a living wage on campus at a meeting organized by the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM). The meeting is one of four SLAM events this week, including a Thursday roundtable on workers’ rights. After a three year campaign and nine-day hunger strike, Georgetown students won a living wage for workers last spring—successfully demanding full-time contract workers be paid a minimum of $13 an hour by fiscal year 2006. Diane Foglizzo, a recent Georgetown graduate and participant...