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...options are not limited. Andrew C. Nkumbula ’10 said that while students used to view Wall Street as a place of financial security and opportunity, the “tables turning” has made him look for opportunities in less-traditional sectors. Kindra L. Mason ’09, a sociology concentrator at the fair, agreed, saying that since the market has “been changing so fast” people have begun “to explore opportunities they might not have initially sought.” “It?...
...their political views. Says John Hibbing, another co-author of the study and a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: "We need to maybe recognize that we're not going to cause our political opponents at some point to kind of break down, head in hand, Perry Mason-style and say that they're wrong. They just see the world differently; they feel it differently...
Wright taught himself how to play piano (and several other instruments) as a jazz-mad child growing up in London, and brought a sense of improvisation to the R&B group he formed with school friends Roger Waters and Nick Mason. When Syd Barrett joined in 1965, the band was renamed and redirected, matching Barrett's weirdness and whimsy with orchestral swells and experimentalism. After Barrett left the group because of mental instability and was replaced by Gilmour, the cohesiveness at the core was never quite the same. Waters seized creative control and reportedly threatened not to release...
...company down on its own. Even in the case of AIG - whose $112 million, four-year tie-up with United is the most expensive ever in English football - "if you look at the overall marketing spend of the companies involved, the shirt sponsorship was tiny," points out Rob Mason, managing director of SBI, a British sponsorship consultancy. Any link between the deal and AIG's current woes, Mason says, is "coincidental...
...foreclosure as people who made downpayments and could document their ability to pay. "This poor performance in the subprime market calls into question the capabilities of lenders, securitizers and investors to reliably estimate peak charge-off rates," warned Joshua Rosner, managing director of Graham Fisher & Co. and Joseph R. Mason, a finance professor at Drexel University in a paper in early 2007. When all the indicators went bad - delinquencies and interest rates up, home prices down - the agencies started yanking the ratings on CDOs by the carload. As the number of subprime delinquencies started to climb, and the magic mark...