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...overrate these bonds, the fact that the agencies’ customers are the very same banks who are trying to sell these dubious securities raises conflict-of-interest issues. These rating agencies are thus not independent, objective judges of quality. Regardless of whether accusations against them are valid, such lack of transparency and failure to rate these securities accurately leaves rating agencies on the hook...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Nanney | Title: Greed Is Not Good | 2/11/2008 | See Source »

...administration through the means of paper-maché and pantomime.While Bread and Puppet’s intent was perhaps laudable, the case against Bush has been made before, and more compellingly (not to mention more concisely). Although the company attempted an impressive integration of multiple media, the performance utterly lacked dramatic cohesion.As the audience filed in, a white-clad throng convulsed rhythmically to the energetic music of local band “The Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band,” which would prove to be the highlight of the evening. The dancers this band accompanied composed...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: This 'Reality' Not Very Divine | 2/10/2008 | See Source »

...once I arrived, I came to understand that Harvard’s pronounced lack of “collegiate gothic” architecture is far from a liability. Reverend Peter Gomes pointed out during my Freshman Week that Harvard’s river Houses and many of its classrooms, which emulate the Georgian architecture of its oldest buildings, seem not drab but elegant, because they are built in a style adherent to our institutional history and tradition, not an appropriated European model. And in the Yard where the first glance meets monotony, a close look reveals that the buildings have...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Looks Can Be Deceiving | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

Though most of our buildings lack the lavish uniformity of Yale or Princeton, the loose unity of the Harvard aesthetic is testament to our lack of pretension and honest relationship with its own history. In a way, the architecture of Harvard is an extension of its traditional attitude that its achievements should speak for themselves. (I don’t mean to pick on our Ivy League neighbors: Boston College, the University of Chicago, and Duke, to name a few, regularly advertise their flashy “gothic” campus in admissions materials despite having come into existence some...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Looks Can Be Deceiving | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

...slightly disappointed with her talk,” he said. “As a student from Europe with a strong interest in European politics, I wish she had addressed the serious challenges that the Left has to face in Europe, such as the lack of harmony and unity between the left-wing parties of different European countries.”Royal had planned to give a talk on gender’s role in politics on Wednesday at CES, but the talk was canceled at the last minute due to a scheduling conflict. At yesterday night?...

Author: By Prateek Kumar and Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Royal Calls For Reform Of Left | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

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