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...institutions or companies in general, such as GM? It applies to any kind of firm that isn't solvent. It doesn't matter if it's a car producer, an industrial firm or a financial firm. It should be encouraged or even compelled to file for bankruptcy. When you keep on bailing out institutions indiscriminately, there is no incentive for them to be prudent in what they're doing, because they know that whatever they do, whatever problems they create by their own behavior, the government will come along and bail them out. So you are providing incentives for institutions...
America and the Middle East In his article, Peter Beinart didn't mention the best reason for Obama to keep the heat on Israel: because he can [June 22]. It doesn't look good for the President of the U.S. to be dissed by Iran and North Korea, but since Israel is tiny and surrounded by people who want to wipe it off the map, Obama can make it tremble with one hand tied behind his back. This makes everybody feel better about America's standing in the world, and if twisting Netanyahu's arm to make concessions he considers...
Leopold said that despite the increase in students, HBS will keep the number of sections for the incoming class at 10, with each expanding slightly. Upon entrance, each HBS student is placed into a section of roughly 90 classmates, with whom they attend all their first-year classes...
...troops? I am really letting the strategic assessment inform that decision. As much as I can, I am really trying to keep my mind from jumping to conclusions before all the brains we have brought together have done their thing. I think when we look at coin requirements, you can't ignore it, and you can't assume it's wrong, but the coin requirements have never been an absolute cookie cutter. We are using some additional technology here, ISR [Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance], which gives us a little bit more ability to cover more terrain...
...teach me something different. Spring 2008, went to a FOB [forward-operating base], we had launched a raid, and our guys had been in combat at 5-m distance, so much so that one of the young sergeants had to pick up an enemy machine gun and keep fighting. Another had, although wounded, already picked up a hand grenade that came on his position and attempted to throw it back and lost half of his arm in the process. I saw him later with a prosthetic arm, and he was upbeat and focused, and as I sat with those guys...