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...Bear's Mighty Fall I read with dismay Justin Fox's "The Bear Trap," about the collapse of investment bank Bear Stearns [March 31]. The market crisis is especially unsettling because it is self-inflicted. Over the past two decades, through the crippling process of outsourcing, we have relinquished our leads in manufacturing, engineering and technology. If we lose our status as the world's financial beacon, we will surely inch closer to becoming a nation of two dimensions: a bloated military power that consumes voraciously and produces little. Robert Winkelmann, Amityville, New York...
Concerning Justin Fox's "triple-A trouble" [March 24]: Standard & Poor's ratings bring an independent voice and transparency to the market to help facilitate access to capital. We have rigorous policies in place to support the independence of our ratings--which are based on consistently applied criteria--and we recently announced additional measures. A triple-A rating represents our opinion that a security or issuer has extremely strong capacity to meet its financial commitments. While the valuation of many triple-A structured securities has fallen heavily, very few triple-A securities (less than 0.1% originally given that rating...
...Such stakes notwithstanding, Deep Springs Dean Justin Kim wrote in an e-mail that he knew of no pending plans to appeal Harvard’s decision...
...lock up the fourth-place spot.Juniors Shannon Flahive and Dara Wilson finished the 100-meter hurdles just a fraction of a second apart to place third and fourth with times of 14.46 and 14.47, respectively.In the men’s 400-meter hurdles, sophomore Justin Grinstead notched a fourth-best finish, completing the event in 54.14.Harvard filled its women’s distance medley squad with freshman and the team of Hilary May, Thea Lee, Meredith MacGregor, and Eliza Ives answered the call, finishing second with a 12:20.26 finish.Boyle finished fourth overall—third among college student-athletes?...
...Justin R. Gerrard ’10 said that the fact this year’s act was “not Third Eye Blind” was a plus...