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...small, but when the chips are down, only a tyrant will do. Generations of Russian dissidents braved prison, execution and revolution to rid their nation of czars. And the Founding Fathers so feared czarlike power that they fashioned a government intricately checked and balanced. Hard to imagine Madison and Mason agreeing to put the really difficult problems in the hands of unelected superstaffers...
...Richard Mason's 1957 best-selling novel The World of Suzie Wong, a young English artist checks into the fictional Nam Kok Hotel in Hong Kong, not realizing it is also a bordello. He meets and eventually falls in love with Suzie Wong, an archetypal "hooker with a heart of gold," and the novel ends happily...
...many banks, including a number of the biggest ones, were bound to fail. The shockingly poor lending standards - housekeepers being approved for million-dollar mortgages - have only hastened their demise. "This crisis needs to be understood as something that has developed over the past decade," says Joseph Mason, a finance professor at Louisiana State University's E.J. Ourso College of Business. "This isn't just one black swan. It's a bunch of black swans that have hung out for a while and created a giant problem." (Read George W. Bush's top 10 economic mistakes...
...Newell won the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:15.87, while Melillo took the 100-yard breaststroke in 58.51. Rounding out the order, Jones squeaked by co-captain Eric Lynch in the 200-yard freestyle, finishing in 1:40.77. The Crimson also boosted its score through the victories of junior Mason Brunnick in the 1000-yard freestyle, freshman Niall Janney in the 100-yard backstroke, and sophomore Blake Lewkowitz in the 200-yard butterfly. The three Harvard swimmers finished in times of 9:32.35, 53.05 and 1:55.08, respectively. Finally, sophomore Will Heyburn picked up the 200-yard...
...historian and biographer who has headed five presidential libraries, Smith is now a scholar-in-residence at George Mason University...