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Glickman: This subject comes up a lot with European colleagues, who look at our ratings system and say, "Oh, you're too restrictive on sexuality, but you allow so much violence." First of all, I'm not 100 percent sure that's true. But I do think that the American culture is one that historically has been more tolerant of violence than sexuality in entertainment...
Lead author Ashish K. Jha and his colleagues used data collected from over 2,400 hospitals—roughly 60 percent of the nation’s hospitals—to assess patient satisfaction with hospital experiences...
...become a lender of last resort amidst a liquidity crisis. Although the country had been known for generations as an isolated fishing outpost off Europe, in the last few decades the national economy veered from fish to finance. According to official figures, the fishing industry shrunk from 16 percent to 6 percent of GDP between 1986 and 2006. Banking, insurance, and property, meanwhile, came to represent 26 percent of GDP by 2006. At the core of this transformation was the spectacular growth of Iceland’s three main banks, Glitnir, Landsbanki, and Kaupthing, all of which grew at impressive...
...trade publication Private Equity Week. The article reported that HMC has hired Cogent Investment Bank to sell approximately $1 billion of its private equity portfolio on the secondary market. As of June 30, HMC’s planned allocation to private equity for 2009 was up to 13 percent of the University’s endowment, or just under $4.8 billion, meaning that the proposed sale would comprise nearly a quarter of its private equity assets. HMC Director of Private Equity Peter Dolan could not be reached for comment, and University spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to confirm the sale...
...Lamassoure’s words were carefully calibrated to make the United States and Europe sound close together, particularly in the event of a victory next week by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. “If Europe were entitled to vote in your election, 93 percent would vote in favor of one candidate,” said Lamassoure, a former French minister of European affairs, of Obama, whose one-week summer tour through several European countries demonstrated the support the Democrat has abroad. “We need to work shoulder-to-shoulder with the next American administration...