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...problem is that many of the moves so far, like insuring money-market mutual funds, have been made to shore up the nation's commercial paper markets. But small companies or those that are short on capital cannot access the commercial paper market, which is generally reserved for companies with good credit. What's more, while the Treasury is urging banks to boost lending in the wake of the government's $250 billion investment into these firms, industry observers are skeptical that it will actually happen. "The idea that more capital is going to influence how much banks lend...
...point is not just to get a bunch of pledges, stuff paper in people’s faces and ask them to care about the environment,” said Molly V. N. Bales ’10, a member of the EAC who gathered pledges this weekend. “The point is to create a relationship with people and get people thinking and discussing the issues...
...Arts B credit for pro-seminar History of Art and Architecture 120n: “Art of the Timurids in Greater Iran and Central Asia” was approved earlier this fall. The final grade for the course is based on class participation, a presentation, and a final paper...
...paper, these groups succeed—at least when it comes to saving their parent institution money. The science complexes in Cambridge and Longwood—usually energy hogs whose buildings use three- to eight-times more energy per square foot than other buildings across campus—avoided the emission of 416 metric tons of carbon and saved $160,000 through the Shut the Sash competition. Since the Resource Efficiency Program (REP)—a university-sposnored initiative that pays students to reach out to others about environmental matters—was founded in 2002, the College...
...loaded title (“Was Milan Kundera a Communist Snitch?”), which overshadows the reasonably balanced content of its article. A top Italian newspaper ran a headline that read, “Kundera helped the Czech secret police,” while the German paper Die Welt likened Kundera to Günter Grass, a Nobel Prize-winning author who hid his military service for the Nazis during most of his life. Several Czech journalists and intellectuals stated they are not surprised that Kundera had once been an informant, as if the matter were already settled...