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...Derivatives Perhaps the most profitable and certainly the most arcane investments of the year were something called derivative securities. Derivatives -- abstractions of stocks, bonds and futures -- are a huge business ($4.5 trillion in contracts) but pose a danger to world financial markets because of lack of regulation. As such, they are often called the junk bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST PRODUCTS OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...report writes that the Core’s current requirements “lack a compelling educational rationale” for the restrictions placed on students. It describes a need for a dramatic shift in general education away from the specificity that has troubled the Core in recent years...

Author: By Allison A. Frost and Evan H. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: After Missteps, Gen Ed Report Is Released | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

...worked for a variety of non-governmental organizations on children’s rights before joining the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, said that the current problems facing transnational adoption outweigh the benefits that children may receive. She cited unnecessary separations due to monetary incentives, lack of government oversight, and a lack of cooperation between international and domestic adoption agencies as the main flaws in the present system. Ortiz suggested that a system which involved increased government oversight and fewer separations between parents and children, such as the one in place in Paraguay, would reduce these problems...

Author: By Ramya Parthasarathy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Hosts Debate on Transnational Adoption | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

...said Alex S. Jones, director of the KSG’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, in regards to the media’s complex relationship with the war in Iraq. “I’m just exasperated by the lack of good coverage,” Massing said in his speech. “I think that the thinness of that coverage reflects the general lack of familiarity that journalists have with the region.” Attendees took issue with the media’s narrow scope when it comes to covering...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Massing Tackles Media Coverage | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

Given these strengths, HoCos consistently ask what we can do on both a campus-wide and House-wide scale, only to run up against the lack of substantial funding. What could the same creative talents that plan each House’s events do if they were less financially constrained? Last weekend’s masquerading mobs at Currier’s Heaven and Hell showed that there is demand for free, campus-wide events, so much so that their attendance had to be capped midway through the event! Yet few other HoCos can satisfy their obligations to their House...

Author: By Neil K. Mehta | Title: The Truth About HoCos | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

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