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...banks were to be simply judged for their liquidation value - what they could get for selling off their assets on the open market today - most major financial institutions in the U.S. would be determined insolvent and due for government takeover. But that isn't the standard by which banks are judged. If it were, most of the country's big banks would have been nationalized in the early 1990s...
...provide closer collaboration with the Cooley firm, which Malone said will allow the clinic to draw on the large firm’s expertise and resources. John G. Palfrey ’94, a Law School professor who formerly oversaw the Clinic, called the fellowship a “major step forward for the study of cyberlaw at Harvard Law School” and said the relationship with Cooley—“a leader in intellectual property law”—would be a boon for the Clinic. Current fellows have proven immensely helpful to students...
...participation has been impressive. For example, for the past three years, the Mental Health Awareness Week has been developed and implemented by students with support from UHS. Last year, we started a new student liaison group whose membership has grown to more than 20 students. One of the major sources of data about the attitudes of students regarding mental health services and the utilization of mental health services comes from Judy Herbstman ’07’s senior thesis. Each year for the past four years, Mental Health Advocacy and Awareness Group has sponsored small discussion groups...
...been in charge of the Milwaukee Archdiocese since 2002, has long been considered among the most likable and loquacious senior American prelates. In the late 1990s, while serving as rector of the Pontifical North American College, the largest English-speaking seminary in Rome, he was a major man about town and go-to guy for U.S. journalists covering the Vatican, at ease sharing a beer or providing simple words to explain complicated Church doctrine...
...marched on the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Buenos Aires, owned by millionaire property developer Eduardo Elsztain, a partner of George Soros in Argentina and a leading figure in the Argentine Jewish community. Jewish leaders were incensed by statements by one of the organizers of that march carried on a major radio channel. "We are going to march to their business offices, to where the rats hide, to single them out, and we will take the offices if necessary, we will surround them and block them up, demanding right there, in the nest of the rats where the Zionist capital...