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...people on the straight and narrow, but too much regulation about the details is going to get you in trouble. The big banks should probably be fairly boring and reasonably well regulated. And their core businesses are - but they were able to get away from their core activities and move further out on the risk spectrum and jeopardize the whole operation. So much more stringent capital requirements for banks as they get larger, to make sure that as they get larger they get more boring. For compensation, one way to mitigate risk is to defer some chunk of compensation...
Over the last few years, Harvard has taken numerous bold steps to create a more environmentally friendly campus, and the recent move to convert all of its grounds to organic grass is another impressive initiative. What started as a one-acre pilot project is now slated to be a full organic overhaul, an encouraging sign that the university is willing to seize worthy ideas that help the environment and save money...
Housing renewal is a promising investment in the future and it is encouraging that it will move forward as planned...
...better, having listed 293 firms with total market cap of $80 billion, equivalent to about 11% of the main board's. Still, the odds are that GEM and other initiatives may not do much to help China's private sector. The country's rulers may yet be forced to move more aggressively to stop state-owned enterprises from sucking up all the oxygen in the banking system, and do so sooner rather than later...
...incident is the latest of many ominous signs for a peace process that is already on the rocks. On the same holiday in 2000, a highly controversial visit paid to the mosque by then opposition leader Ariel Sharon proved to be the move that many here say launched the second intifadeh. Indeed, it was a bad weekend for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict all around. On Sept. 25, the Israeli Defense Forces killed three members of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in an air strike - the first one inside densely populated Gaza City since a loose cease-fire was implemented...