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...time to honor those musicians who have publicly gone green. In a world that grasps greedily at resources of rapidly diminishing quality, fourteen artists produced ten fascinating new tracks with 50-100% post-consumer material. They are the green imps who have stood on the shoulders of giants??and, by Gore, have they seen further! This is pure outshining gold...
Paul Volcker, the former Fed chairman, and Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, agree that governments should mandate separation between commercial and investment banks. Volcker argues that President Obama’s “regulate the giants?? approach is insufficient, since the market changes faster than regulators can keep up with it. Under Volcker’s plan, commercial banks and investment banks would still be free to flourish—just as separate companies...
Conventional economic wisdom holds that the free market alone should determine which companies and industries succeed and fail. A company’s decisions, whether they are wise or poor, are its own to make, and it should have to face consequences of those decisions. The American auto industry giants??namely, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler—have made a number of poor, if not self-destructive, choices in the past decade, culminating in their current liquidity crisis. While a healthy economy would survive the bankruptcy of a Big Three auto giant, any such failure could plunge...
...William H. Lewis, Harvard’s first black captain and first football scoreboard, invented by Bostonian Arthur Iwin. 1908: Rumor has it that Harvard coach Percy Haughton strangled a bulldog in locker room to motivate players. Harvard did win, 4-0. 1909: “Battle of the Giants?? in which 9-0 Yale beats 8-0 Harvard for national championship. 1930: W. Barry Wood ’32 throws a pair of touchdowns and plays the entire last minute for a 13-0 win. 1954: Harvard wins its 500th game by crushing Yale at the Stadium...
...predicted that the New York Giants?? blitz would unseat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. Few predicted that presidential hopeful Ron Paul could raise nearly $35 million for his campaign. History has shown time and again that success can often come unexpectedly. Though it is not widely predicted, the Democratic Party will encounter a formidable challenge if John McCain selects Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as his vice presidential running mate. Rice may not be the first candidate for Vice President that comes to mind, but then again many winning strategies are not immediately apparent...