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...Roubini, who probably has several advanced degrees, wrote in The Washington Post that the Swedes set a precedent for bank nationalization nearly 20 years ago. The first counter to his argument is that it is dark over 20 hours a day in Sweden during the winter which causes a level of depression among the population that may undermine their judgment and views of how dire any economic situation is. If this theory is true, banks in Panama will never face being taken over by the government...
...these banks may experience in the future. But, the taxpayer is already likely to face that fate. The federal government is in the process of guaranteeing bad paper at the banks and may end up buying many of these toxic assets to keep losses at the firms at a level where they do not have to raise even more capital...
There was a TV incident, too, wasn't there? It was on a talk show. I can't remember who the host was, but he said, all you women's libbers want to pee standing up. I mean, that was the level of the discourse. People just didn't get it. They didn't understand that women's rights are human rights, that women were given really no quarter...
Still, there's an echo-chamber quality to this technique: genius is what we all say it is. Is there a more objective method? There are IQ tests, of course, but not all IQ tests are the same, which leads to picking a minimum IQ and calling it genius-level. Also, estimates of the IQs of dead geniuses tend to be fun, but they are based on biographical information that can be highly uneven. (Read TIME's 1999 cover story about the "I.Q. Gene...
...speed of transition the Raiders possess, Harvard has put a real focus on the power play during practices. “Special teams are a make-or-break part of the game,” Biega said. While the rivalry between Harvard and Colgate is not at the same level as the one with Cornell, the game is still enormously important. It sets the tone for the rest of the weekend as well as the rest of the season. The Crimson, taking each game at a time, has a focused goal for the remainder of the season...