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...says Rachel M. Singh ’10, the co-director of Suffolk County House of Correction Tutoring Program. The Suffolk tutoring program, which largely focuses on providing support for the facility’s GED classes, is not without its challenges. Both Singh and Bonsey note the prison’s oppressive regulation of their interactions with the prisoners they tutor, such as prohibitions on contact with prisoners after release and sharing personal information. Getting inmates to focus can also be a challenge, given the prison’s bureaucracy and the amount of material to cover, and several...
...normal times, the request would be superfluous. International aviation law and a separate bilateral agreement between Spain and the United States both require all airports in the two countries to permit emergency landings. But the flights the Spanish note refers to were far from normal. The year was 2002 and the U.S. Air Force was transferring Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners from Afghanistan to a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay. Washington wanted to know if Spain could help...
Monday's market drop was accompanied by a mad rush to the safety of Treasury securities, where yields fell yet again. The yield on the 10-year note dropped to 2.748%. Ironically, many on Wall Street believe Treasury securities are no bargain, particularly after November's strong showing, when Treasuries delivered their best performance in more than 25 years. Merrill Lynch even issued a market report Monday morning noting that "Treasuries have moved into overvalued territory," yet added that it did not think the bull market in these securities would end anytime soon...
...research note, analysts at Morgan Stanley pointed to growing redemptions from university endowments that have found their portfolio allocations out of whack, thanks to plunging stock prices - a point reinforced today when Paul Tudor Jones's Tudor Investment Corp announced that it had suspended redemptions on one of its hedge funds...
...pleased, and that doing downward facing dog didn't make you a bad Muslim. One of my girlfriends even attended a Sufi yoga class where the teacher played the daf (a Persian frame drum) and everyone chanted to the Shi'a Imam Ali. Many, like my mother, like to note the similarities between the physical sequence of Muslim prayer and asanas, claiming harmony, or at least fatwa-free ground, between Islam and yoga...