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That was a pointed reference to the perils of investing in U.S. financial companies over the last 18 months. In May 2007, China Investment Corp. (CIC), the country's sovereign wealth fund, sank $3 billion into Blackstone Group, the U.S. private equity firm, only to watch its stake shrink by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan to the Rescue of Ailing US Firms | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

Fitzsimmons also pointed to an unintended side effect of excessive test prep.

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SAT May Someday Be Optional, Dean Says | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

It is my opinion that you always have a choice. Chicken or fish. Yankees or Red Sox. Studying for an Ec midterm or playing Super Smash Brothers. But for me, one choice stands above all the rest: to rush or not to rush, that is the question. Did you know...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY'S WORLD: Rushing 101: How To Storm the Field | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

Holding a dog-eared copy of the Constitution, a document which Ginsburg said she carries at all times, she pointed out the attached Declaration of Independence as a treatise showing the country’s respect for “what the rest of the world thought.?...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ginsburg Speaks on Women in Law | 9/21/2008 | See Source »

After reading Fareed Zakaria’s “The Post-American World,” I began to regret having dropped Chinese Ba after one very frustrating fall semester my freshman year. Then I imagined the brutal beating my GPA would’ve probably received with one...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Reading: The Post-American World | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

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