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...disorder. It's not that I'm not angry. I am, in fact, frustrated that we've civilized ourselves out of really satisfying scapegoat rituals: The ancients would have staged a mass immolation of the AIG casino pigs in their private jets or crucified Bernie Madoff on the 18th hole at the Palm Beach Country Club, preceded by a public show trial with Jon Stewart as chief magistrate. You probably need an over-the-top catharsis or two like that to get the popular rage under control. As it is, guilt and anger are being splashed about chaotically and inefficiently...
...insurance for banks around the world - might wipe out the global financial system and unleash an economic catastrophe far worse than what we're going through now. In short, the people at AIG FP, the very division that wrote the default-insurance contracts that dug AIG into such a hole, got their bonuses by holding the global economy hostage. (Read "How AIG Became Too Big to Fail...
...We’re struggling [with alumni], but we’re trying to figure out who played,” said Stevens, whose team has an alumni network with a thirty-year hole in it. “Hopefully in the future we’ll start contacting alumni and drawing in some funds...
...provide Harvard students and Allston residents with an opportunity to see the University’s impact on the community first-hand. For several residents—and the three Harvard students that attended—Saturday was the first time they saw the massive “hole in the ground” at the Science Complex site...
...Farrar said.After giving up six goals to Hartwick in the first eight minutes, the Crimson tried to play catch-up for the remainder of the game. “We didn’t defend the shallow end effectively in the first quarter, and that put us in a hole that we never really were able to dig ourselves out of,” Farrar said.The squad cut the lead to 8-5 in the second quarter. The teams traded three goals apiece before the Hawks went on a 5-2 run to end the game...