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Last year, when finance professor Robert Schwartz decided to put together a conference on volatility in the markets, nobody knew just how timely it would be. In the past few weeks, triple-digit swings in the Dow Industrials have become a matter of course, as seasick investors watch stocks bound up and down, pounded by the day's news, and often, it seems, for no discernable reason at all. In the first few minutes of trading on Friday, stock indexes dropped 5% as the double whammy of deleveraging and a worldwide economic slowdown continued to buffet company shares...
Though federal funding rules for this research appear likely to change no matter which candidate is elected, the recent discovery of less controversial approaches to creating stem cells might render the point moot. McCain and Palin have said this potential is reason to hope there will one day be no need for embryonic methods...
Nelson said the CHL’s “real purpose” this year is to have “open, honest dialogue with students about things that matter to them, and to have students feel as if people are listening...
...Nixon,” “W.” fails to provoke debate or shed new light on an already over-exposed political figure. Instead, Stone settles for a hastily-constructed biopic of George W. Bush that unskillfully combines a sometimes comedic tone with serious subject matter. “W.” is neither provocative nor riveting; it’s simply dull and conventional...
...greatest legacy would be that these kids are always involved in music throughout their lives, and that music remains one of the important things that nourishes them, no matter what field they follow,” he says...