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...nation's biggest financial institutions, and to dissolve those institutions in an orderly way if they fail. At the same time, the Senate is moving ahead with its own bill, with talk of a markup in Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd's Banking Committee before Thanksgiving. Treasury has even held preliminary discussions with Dodd and Frank staffers about how to meld the two bills, even though both versions remain in flux. Earlier in the fall, Geithner's staff went through their proposals line by line with the Senate Banking Committee's top Republican, Richard Shelby...
Spin: After this summer’s beer summit, Harvard held a 1-0 advantage in the category of “Professors Who Have Met The President.” Now that lead has vanished. MIT appears to be positioning itself to steal the title of World’s Greatest University—we must attack at once...
According to Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis, who held a press conference to update the public following Tuesday’s incident, Desrosiers is currently in stable condition...
...derided South Korea's "decadent foreign culture and ideals," and has banned nearly all South Korean, American and Japanese films in favor of 1960s Soviet and Chinese films rife with revolutionary ideas. Foreign films are allowed to be shown in some contexts, such as the Pyongyang International Film Festival held every other fall, and in recent weeks state television has occasionally shown Disney films like Snow White, Cinderella and Robin Hood. But a wide selection of foreign films have always been available to the country's élites, having been smuggled in before the 1990s, though never at the rate...
...accept the framework of the agreement to reprocess some of its enriched uranium abroad to create fuel for a medical research reactor but at the same time demand important changes to the deal. As Tehran has kept the world waiting over the past week, conventional wisdom has held that Iran is playing for time, testing the limits of international political resolve, and hamstrung by internal political divisions. There's a measure of truth to these claims. But more important, the reason that Iran and the West are struggling over an agreement envisaged as a first step toward greater cooperation...