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...list of people and institutions to blame for the financial crisis would include credit-rating agencies - the companies that assign letter grades to everything from General Electric's bonds to Malaysia's sovereign debt, indicating the chances that investors will lose money. The CEOs of the three largest agencies - Moody's, Standard and Poor's and Fitch - were assailed by Congress in October for the way their firms made record profits while raising few, if any, red flags about how massively risky mortgage-related securities had become...
...layoffs during an intimate lunch event with University President Drew G. Faust and seven Eliot residents. SLAM, a student organization that advocates on behalf of Harvard staff, interrupted Faust’s noontime meal with a warm welcome and round of applause. They then presented her with an open letter and an oversized cotton T-shirt. In the letter—addressed to the President and the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body—SLAM called upon the University to rehire all workers who have been fired since October 2008. “Harvard faces...
...Faust blinks in surprise as a rowdy gang from SLAM -- the student labor action movement-- interrupts the intimate meal to hand Faust an open letter petition against layoffs and a conciliatory t-shirt Faust will never wear...
...case revolves around a letter sent by Stafford Smith to Obama, and published in February by media on both sides of the Atlantic. The letter details Mohamed's allegations of U.S. involvement in his torture and rendition. In it, Stafford Smith says that as "U.S. lawyers with appropriate security clearances we have access to this classified material" and adds that a memorandum setting out the evidence will be attached. "We will send you only what we are allowed to send you," he writes. The attachment is a memo, blacked out but for date, sender and subject line: Torture of British...
...that he wanted to use the memorandum to demonstrate to Mr Mohamed that he (i.e., Mr Ghappour) was working on Mr Mohamed's case." The PRT member says that on the basis of "Mr Ghappour's stated rationale," the memo was marked "unclassified." Its subsequent publication along with the letter, which had not been submitted to the PRT, demonstrates a manipulation of "the Protective Order's procedures in order to deceive the press and the public about the role of the PRT," says the declaration. The signature and printed name of its author have been removed - redacted to protect identify...