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...past few weeks, as many as 67 financial firms have received a portion of the $700 billion bailout approved by Congress. But absent from the list of companies approved for the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) are a handful of midsize banks, which rank among the 50 largest in the nation by the Federal Reserve. And that has a number of analysts and investors who follow these companies worried. "It's a case of be careful what you wish for," says Thomas Brown, whose hedge fund Second Curve Capital specializes in financial firms. "We asked...
...although it might seem counterintuitive, sometimes a very small population of us is simply forced down this slippery slope of knowing way too much about complete and utter strangers. By small population, I mean myself, and through the course of my extracurricular choices, I have unwittingly become the largest DHA creeper at Harvard.Successfully serving as a sports writer can only be achieved through an impressive depth of knowledge about a number of athletes here at our college. Most writers cover at least two beats each year, leading to an intense one-sided relationship with the athletes on one?...
...mayor may have trouble delivering such a secular 'miracle'. Taken together, ultra-orthodox parties will still be the largest block in Jerusalem's city council. In order to win over the large religious Zionist vote, Barkat, a former city councilman, swung from the center to the far right, campaigning on promises to build more Jewish settlements in Arab East Jerusalem. U.S. administrations and the international community have repeatedly said that these settlements are an obstacle to peace between Israelis and Palestinians...
...budgetary plans have yet to be laid out, in part because University officials do not yet have a full report of the state of its endowment. In the interview, Faust declined to comment on the performance of the endowment—the largest in higher education—noting that the University discloses its investment returns once per year...
Even though most of the nation’s largest retailers reported a sharp slump in sales for October, local businesses seemed poised to weather the economic storm, buoyed by the reliable university customer base and the Square’s consistently strong foot traffic.“Harvard Square is a little different [from other business environments] in that people, students, academics, business people—they still have to come here because business continues and school continues,” said Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association. “People need...