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...universally respected for his intellect, honesty, and ability to articulate the issues, plus he is not a compromiser of principles." -Nevada federal judge Lloyd D. George (Meridian magazine...
...pays for ratings, though, isn't the entire issue. In a speech in early April, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein put his finger on another deeply flawed part of the system: "Too many financial institutions and investors simply outsourced their risk management," he said. "Rather than undertake their own analysis, they relied on the rating agencies." In other words, the problem is not just the ratings agencies, but the way investors - from Wall Street firms to university endowments - have become mindlessly dependent on them. That is harder...
...feel the same way,” Bridge wrote. Bridge and McNaughton had met with the administration to discuss the decision to cut the printed version of the Q Guide, but they had not been told about plans to alter the guide’s format, said Douglas R. Lloyd ’09, a two-year veteran of the Q Guide who was helping advise this year’s editors. According to an e-mail sent to students by Harris, the new version of the Q Guide will contain extensive numerical data and the full text...
...resources. China has similar advantages today, and partly because we have already been there and done that, paving the way, it has been able to develop in fast motion, cramming 100 years of development into 30. But I'm reminded of Philip Johnson's apt, bitchy description of Frank Lloyd Wright during the forward looking 1930s "as the greatest architect of the 19th century." Twenty-first century China is the greatest country of the 20th century. Muscular industrialism gets you only so far. Further increases in productivity and prosperity require ingenuity and enterprise applied at the micro scale - digital devices...
...nothing to me, really, you know how I feel about these biddies meddling and gossiping and trying to control people’s lives—what I mean is, I’m telling people you’re the new housekeeper,” is how Frank Lloyd Wright introduces his latest mistress Olgivanna Miljanova to his estate Taliesin. He seems to expect that she will accept her new title without protest or even remark. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she does. Such is the charismatic power and authority with which T.C. Boyle imbues the enigmatic Frank Lloyd Wright...