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This semester, Harvard students should rethink their exercise habits and how they could be affecting their mental health. An hour at the gym might be as good as an hour at the library, in terms of mental preparation. The health benefits are so great that students ought to engage in some sort of exercise regularly, and the University should help motivate students to do so as well. Hopefully there will be more students jogging along the Charles from now on and less cooped up in the Widener dungeon...
...fail banks should have a capital cost that will make it a disadvantage to compete in the riskiest parts of the financial-services market. I also like President Obama's recent proposal, the so-called Volcker Rule, which would limit proprietary trading and investing. Combining these two regulatory changes ought to encourage big banks to figure out new business strategies, and that would involve selling off some of their riskier businesses...
...well. Most financial firms are trading at very low multiples these days because of their inherent trading and balance-sheet risks. Most investors just can't understand them. They are too much like black boxes. Once you lessen the risk, the value of the strong underlying banking franchises ought to be more visible and appreciated. (See TIME's 2009 Person of the Year: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke...
...collapse of Enron should have been a trigger to those involved in business in America, the American government, and the American populace that there ought to be fundamental changes in the general practices of American industries, such as how liabilities and assets are calculated. It wasn’t—and those who have benefited from the Enron-led train of unscrupulous practices of the market—such as short-selling, betting against the market or hoping it will fail so that you can make money selling for high to buy at very low. or profiting from...
Indeed, great ethical question marks surround the matter of whether “Laura” ought to have been published at all. Nabokov’s last wish was that it be burnt should he die before its completion, a worst-case scenario that came to pass in 1977 when the complications of fever took him in Switzerland. The literary world at once divided in two: the “publish” camp happy to get their hands on whatever they could from the man they considered a genius, and their “perish” antagonists...