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...Andrew Tobias, Democratic Party Treasurer, gave a passionate speech that could have been a highlight of the convention. But when he said: “In just the last eight years, the Republicans have cut the value of the U.S. dollar almost in half,” my neck got another workout...
...financial health of so many Americans. Trevor Jones, a managing director at Insurance Security Services, told the Financial Times that permitting the collapse of AIG would be akin to “taking the foundation stone out of a skyscraper.” That said, these bailouts highlight major issues with our current financial system at large. The risk-laden, unregulated environment in which these companies—such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and a host of other Wall Street firms—have been operating is completely unacceptable. While we do not support unbridled regulation of the market...
...HIGHLIGHT REEL: • A meeting soon after Cheney is inaugurated, between himself and former vice president Dan Quayle. "'Dick, you know you're going to be doing a lot of this international traveling, you're going to be doing all this political fundraising.' Quayle repeated. "I mean, this is what Vice Presidents do. We've all done...
...Committee on General Education recommends that members of the class of 2012 continue under the Core. With the debut of a slate of Gen Ed offerings, this advice to freshman is essentially a vote of no confidence in the brand new program. Attempts to ease the transitional burden further highlight the lack of a substantive difference between the two programs. When every Gen Ed course either counts for Core credit or is a literal recasting of a former Core course, it becomes clear that both curricula are so watered-down that tangible and substantive differences between the two are difficult...
...four events around New England, and the Crimson endured shifty conditions to bring home its first team title of the year.The co-ed team split between the Harry Anderson Trophy in New Haven, Conn. and the MIT Invite in Cambridge. The MIT Invite brought the team’s highlight of the weekend, as Harvard dominated the competition, winning both divisions of the regatta. The Crimson finished a respectable tenth at the Anderson Trophy.Meanwhile, the women’s team sailed in two events—the Man-Labs Trophy in Cambridge on Saturday and the Captain?...