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...thing that I feel most summed her up is that she never backed down from a challenge—be it something huge like her torn ACL in rugby, or something as small as an arm wrestling match,” Radcliffe Rugby co-captain Morgan M. W. Jessee ’09 wrote in an e-mail. “Joo met life head-on, and it’s what I admire most about her,” Jessee continued. “She was an amazing person, a great friend, and her passing has left a huge...
...January? Ten days later, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds sent a letter to the community announcing a student-faculty committee that would work to nail down J-Term logistics. The UC was able to choose two students—William R. Rose ’11 and Morgan L. Paull ’12—to serve in the group. On budgetary issues, Flores began to push harder for a seat at the table. At the same April 14 meeting, Flores inquired into the level of involvement the Council would have on budget cuts...
...which has suffered heavily from the recent economic downturn, was further destabilized by this move. But the chilling news from Ukraine was offset by the announcement of a power-sharing agreement between the corrupt and ailing Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, led by Morgan Tsvangirai. President Mugabe, who was certified the winner of a questionably conducted election last fall, has presided over one of the greatest economic collapses in history, turning Zimbabwe—formerly a prosperous and stable region of Africa—into a poster child for economic mismanagement. We wished Prime...
Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan ... Unleashed a Catastrophe By Gillian Tett Free Press; 293 pages
...Tett made the curious choice of moving to the capital-markets desk at the Financial Times--bonds, mortgage securities, derivatives. Arcane stuff, numbing stuff. Did she sense something? Tett eventually found herself covering the biggest financial story in a generation. Fool's Gold tells how a team at J.P. Morgan popularized credit derivatives, then pulled back worriedly just before the rest of the banking world was nearly destroyed by them. The physics of finance is complex, but Tett explains the world of derivatives as well as any book for lay readers ever...