Word: nothingness
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The success of Citi's dealmakers comes as a surprise because the sprawling bank has generated nothing but frightening headlines in recent months. Like the other big banks, Citi received billions in aid from the government, and has been back to the government's well more often than most. Last...
Such financial uncertainty is stoking fears of backsliding to an era when private colleges were the ivy-covered province of the privileged. Skidmore assistant director of admissions Marisa Ferrara fielded her first ever requests this year from parents rescinding financial-aid applications at the eleventh hour for fear that they...
No governing body does insane rituals like the Senate--with its handleless gavel, seersucker-suit day every June and Republican candy desk. It's like Pee-wee's Playhouse with more sex scandals. But nothing is crazier than the fact that every two years, the Senate must break from trillion...
By the time we finish high school, most of us know Henry David Thoreau as "the eccentric who went into the wild to live monastically," as Robert Sullivan puts it--an image that Sullivan, author of the rodent history Rats, says is entirely wrong. The man who penned Walden and...
Mann is torn up about the economy and wants a Treasury Secretary he can trust. I know how he feels - things are really tough right now, you know? - but sometimes life isn't that simple. Sure, Paul Krugman looks like the guy every recession-weary gal dreams of, but it...