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Donald E. Heller, director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University, said he noticed that American universities in general—such as MIT, Yale, and Harvard—seemed to have a larger presence at Davos than usual. He attributed this phenomenon to an overall shift of attentions toward the international community...
Patricia E. Richards, a spokesperson at MIT, also noted that MIT’s faculty presence was larger than usual...
While the storyline focusing on the difficulty of maintaining relationships in a time of war may mirror the lives of members of the Armed Forces today, Tatum and Seyfried predict a much larger audience could also relate to the central themes of “Dear John.” Tatum says, “I think we could have taken John out of the military and made him anything else as long as that distance and time was between them and things come down the road that they don’t expect... This is a story [about...
...books published so far about the financial crisis. Instead of attacking individuals, the Nobel Prize--winning economist faults the system that delivered us to the brink, citing the effects of everything from deregulation to the misaligned incentives of people selling financial products. But Stiglitz has his sights on a larger problem as well. For too long, he argues, economists and policymakers have relied on the erroneous assumptions that markets are fundamentally efficient and material wealth is the best measure of an economy's health. "The model of 19th century capitalism doesn't apply in the 21st," he writes. What...
...Allergic to Populism Shortly after Obama unveiled a $117 billion plan to tax the riskier liabilities of larger financial firms, Geithner hosted a dinner for bankers. A few of them grumbled about Big Government, class warfare and the unfairness of scapegoating financial institutions that already repaid their bailout money while GM and Chrysler keep hemorrhaging taxpayer cash. But one midsize-bank CEO suggested the tax was a reasonable surcharge on too-big-to-fail conglomerates that benefit from an implicit guarantee of federal help in a crisis. "If I fail, the FDIC shuts me down," he said. Then he gestured...