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...BILLION Loans to holders of asset-backed securities, which include education, credit-card and auto loans, to jump-start consumer financing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...amazing how that sort of play spills over to the next player or the next possession. I thought that really helped us—it became contagious to be aggressive.”The second period was dominated by the same high tempo play from both teams, with jump balls, steals, or blocked shots seeming to come on every other possession. It was Lin that led the rejuvenated Crimson in the second half as Harvard lost its lead again only once. He garnered 19 of his points in the period, including nine points from the new longer-range three-point...

Author: By Paul T. Hedrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Career Night for Lin Gives Crimson Win | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...banks do look a lot more like normal Western commercial banks," says one investment bank analyst with a decade of experience in China. "But every single senior officer - right down to the manager of the smallest branch in Outer Mongolia - is a Party member. And when the Party says, 'Jump,' or 'We're all in trouble,' they say, 'How high?' It's that simple." The same rule applies to state owned enterprises, which still account for about a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China Headed for a Hard Landing? | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...silence the threat. “Our weakest point was definitely the beginning of the second half,” sophomore forward Emma Markley said. “We just didn’t come out with enough intensity, and it really set us back.”Markley jump-started Harvard in the first half, when it looked as though it would be able to hang with the defending MAAC conference champions. It took just 17 seconds after the tip-off for Markley to take a pass from senior guard Emily Tay (seven points, five assists...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Second-Half Struggles Create Impossible Deficit | 11/23/2008 | See Source »

...some people will get lucky and some people won’t. The specific purpose of Frederick Douglass’s speech—often glossed over in history books—was to argue that freedmen ought to be given equal opportunities for success, and that they should jump at those opportunities when they presented themselves. We forget that ultimately even Douglass concludes that “properly speaking, there are in the world no such men as self-made men...We have all either begged, borrowed, or stolen.” —Reviewer Anjali Motgi...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Outliers' Doesn't Succeed | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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