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Last week, Registrar Barry S. Kane announced that students who complete their Q evaluations online will be able to access their final grades immediately after the end of the examination period instead of having to wait the usual 10 days. The end-of-semester evaluations, which are mandatory for all but the smallest seminar courses, are an important part of both teaching and learning here at the College, and it is essential that students fill them out. Therefore, we applaud the Registrar for implementing this new system and hope that it is an efficient and effective means of incentivizing...
...companies, though, are seeing the same benefit. As a recent Merrill Lynch report pointed out, when companies with lower credit ratings are going to issue debt, they're still paying up. Bonds that fall in the lowest category that still manage to be considered "investment grade" are yielding 5.3 percentage points more than government bonds. That's down from a high spread of 6.2 but still far above the 22-year average of 2.2 points. High-yield bonds, which are even riskier, are at a spread of 15.2. That's down from a high of 19.8 - yet three times...
...that means is that the firms going out to raise money tend to be the ones with better credit quality. In March, companies raised $116 billion by issuing bonds. That was the most since May 2007. However, of that $116 billion, a full $115 billion was raised by high-grade issuers...
...Even songs that seem to be ‘about nothing’ have a real poetic element to them, and it’s wasted on people who don’t take the time to think about them.” Lee, who began rapping in seventh grade and continued in high school as a gospel rapper, emphasizes that rap can be a highly constructive force. “I think rap has a really powerful influence, and it’s unfortunate that more rap lyrics are not about positive things, because one can really feel uplifted...
...country's biggest guerrilla group, and within a few years was ordering deadly attacks of his own--including the kidnapping and murder of 13 politicians. "I killed a lot of people, but here I am," he says. Now 17, Humberto is studying confectionery and will soon enter the 10th grade. (See pictures of the FARC guerillas...