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Silver linings, alas, aren't liquid assets. And so, the Dow Jones Industrial Average scratched its head over how to interpret the decision by six central banks, including the Fed, to lower their key lending rates - the average moving first slightly up, then down, then up again till the last 15 minutes of the day when suddenly, it all came back down, closing down more than 189 points...
...league’s teams themselves are changing their outlook. There have been several efforts in recent years to schedule some lower-level Division I-A opponents by Ivy schools; Harvard briefly had Army on the schedule before the Black Knights entered Conference USA and had to remove the game. Yale had Army scheduled for 2010 and 2012, though those games are no longer listed in the schedule for the Bulldogs (Army’s sports information department claims those scheduled games were always unofficial and declined to comment on why they were no longer listed). The odds of getting...
...presidential election, a staggering 20 percent of eligible non-voters avoided the polls due to “scheduling conflict or inconvenient voting procedures.” And, of those affected by such calendar clashes, most cited inflexible workday schedules—too often correlated with lower socioeconomic status—as barriers to voting. At its best, then, the system is merely broken; at its worst, it discriminates along socioeconomic lines...
...would be misleading to try and say it’s related to the financial crisis, because that’s more about institutional fallibility. I don’t think we would have had a much better outcome if we had given guys shots or something to lower their testosterone levels. But there’s something there...
...This fellow has made his success as the founder of consulting company EchoDitto. He is also a member of the board for the Lower East Side Girl’s Club, a group which teaches girls confidence...