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...Evidence of just how bad the global recession is shaping up to be is building fast. The worst of the news Monday came with the announcement that financial insurance giant American International Group had lost $61.7 billion in the last quarter of 2008, the largest quarterly loss in corporate history. As the insurer of much of the toxic American mortgage debt that detonated the implosion of the world's finance markets, AIG is now also set to take on an additional $30 billion in U.S. government rescue funding beyond the record-setting $150 billion in aid it received last year...
...Shutting down Guantánamo is a giant step. But, as we have learned so dearly in the past, decisive action calls for a coherent exit strategy. More crucially, the United States and its allies need a new game plan for handling international terrorist suspects—a strategy that jives with both human-rights concerns and a stronger commitment to multilateral counterterrorism...
...McCahill said.The men’s alpine team was led by junior captain Chris Kinner’s 27th place effort in the men’s Slalom event, moving up 18 spots from his starting position. He did himself three places better in the men’s Giant Slalom event, as he finished 24th in that race.The small roster of the women’s alpine squad once again hurt the Crimson’s chances of moving up the ranks in the team standings, as the contingent had only one member compete over the weekend. Freshman Caroline...
Harvard has inked a custom loan arrangement with financial services giant JPMorgan Chase designed to make it easier for international graduate students to fund their education, University officials announced Friday. The recently signed deal with JPMorgan, which had been in the works for over six months to replace a previous arrangement with Citibank, will provide eligible international students with loans up to the total cost of attendance at Harvard’s graduate schools. The announcement did not contain further details for the program, and both JPMorgan and a number of Harvard financial aid officers declined to comment Friday afternoon...
...personality who can connect well with a diverse group of people, Steiker says. During the Senate confirmation hearing, Kagan elicited chuckles from the panel by calling herself a “pipsqueak” clerking for then-Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, whom she called “a giant of the law.”“It’s almost an anti-charisma kind of charisma, but it’s very, very charming,” Steiker says.When Kagan was passed over for the University presidency two years ago, students at the Law School threw...