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...comment as more of a barb than as a viable suggestion. "I would be surprised if the E.U. felt that [helping Ukraine purchase gas from Russia] was an appropriate use of their funds," says Niall Trimble, director of The Energy Contract Company, a consulting company based in England. "In order to rebuild relations, Russia needs a period of uninterrupted supply for a significant time. Action always speaks louder than words and the Russians do have a little bit of work...
...Banks exiting the TARP program are also looking to buy back the warrants they issued to the government in order to receive TARP funds. David Hendler, an analyst at CreditSights, estimates that it would cost JPMorgan nearly $2.6 billion to buy back their warrants from the government. "Banks may have to spend substantial sums to pay back their TARP warrants," says Hendler. Proponents of the banks paying back the government say the higher borrowing costs will only be temporary. As the market improves, banks will be able to issue bonds on their own at lower rates. Indeed, so-called bank...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences Registrar’s Office announced last week that they would eliminate hiring temporary examination proctors beginning fall 2009 in order to trim budgets as part of $77 million in cuts made across FAS. Instead, “existing faculty, graduate students, and staff will proctor exams,” according to a May 11 announcement on the FAS planning Web site...
...testing,” the group of students from the College as well as several graduate schools assembled by Massachusetts Ave. after abandoning their plans to conduct a “test-in.” Protestors had originally planned to request HIV tests en masse in order to demonstrate the demand for anonymous testing. But a majority of protesters were turned away by UHS because they did not have an appointment or an actual medical ailment, according to Craig B. Colbeck, a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student. Linda Ellison, who teaches in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality...
...According to Russian news agency RIA Novosti, on May 15 local Tajik officials received phone calls from the president's office playing a recorded address by Rakhmon in which he stated that from then on, they could only display portraits of him that had been given official approval: "In order to prevent the veneration of bureaucrats [and] eliminate misunderstandings among the public ... the placement of portraits of the head of state in public places will be determined by the Office of the President of Tajikistan." The directive says that all portraits and woven carpets that show local officials standing...