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...says Inslee, "are so outraged, they don't get past that." The second group comprises people who recognize the need to intervene to avert further financial calamity "but are absolutely outraged that we'd do something that is so inequitable to Main Street." This group, he says, is considerably larger than the first and wants a more balanced bill. Finally, Inslee says, there is a third group that "is in favor of doing anything because the situation is so dire. And his name is Bob." Inslee isn't being facetious: it is a group of one, a constituent named...
...nine months. Indicating that prestige and media coverage seem to be correlated, six of the universities on the Global Language Monitor list also made the U.S. News top ten. Global Language Monitor President Paul Payack said yesterday that he expected the popularity of university athletic programs to be a larger factor in his rankings. “The number one criteria is academic reputation,” Payack said. “Sports were a much smaller influence than you would think.” Each college and university was assigned a Predictive Qualities Indicator score that determined its ranking...
...from one of her friends, who was interning at University Hall last spring. Kenen interviewed Calareso over the summer and offered her the job. This new administrative reshuffling has moved several office locations as well. Harris is now in Kenen’s old office, which she jokes is larger than her new one. Calareso was originally situated in the Core Office over the summer, but has recently moved to across the hall from Kenen in University Hall. Kenen joked that she is glad she doesn’t have to communicate with Calareso over Skype anymore. Calareso and Kenen...
...play a role,” said Coren L. Apicella, a graduate student in anthropology who co-authored the study. They measured participants’ testosterone levels by taking samples of their saliva and by evaluating the “maleness” of their faces—a larger jaw and other measures imply a greater influx of testosterone during puberty, according to Apicella. “This financial risk taking in men is the modern equivalent of male-to-male combat,” said Apicella, who found in a previous study that men with lower voices tend...
...there's a catch: taxpayers are already on the hook for the failures of financial institutions, and it's possible that the bill will actually be larger without bailout legislation than with it. That's because the regulators who mind the financial industry - the Federal Reserve, Treasury and FDIC - will keep doing what they've been doing: stepping in to prevent the chaotic failure of banks and other large financial institutions. This means continuing to put hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars at risk, but in a way that adheres to no clear plan of action and doesn't require...