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Not all companies, though, are seeing the same benefit. As a recent Merrill Lynch report pointed out, when companies with lower credit ratings are going to issue debt, they're still paying up. Bonds that fall in the lowest category that still manage to be considered "investment grade" are yielding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sign of Hope: Corporate Borrowing Costs Ease | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

Yesterday afternoon, close to 180 people gathered in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics to discuss art and politics with Carlos Fuentes, and internationally renowned Latin-American literary giant known particularly for his novels. Carlos Fuentes served as Mexico’s ambassador to France...

Author: By Minji Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Carlos Fuentes Talks Literature and Politics at IOP Forum | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

Defenders of the procedure have pointed to the fact that American soldiers are put through a form of waterboarding during the military's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape program, as training for the possibility of capture. But Keller points out that being waterboarded during training, as scary as it might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waterboarding: A Mental and Physical Trauma | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

It will be messy, it will be inefficient, and, for many greens, it will be maddening, but Congress is the right place to hash out our response to global warming. The very real and very scary threat of a warming world - which might as well be a gun pointed at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EPA's CO2 Finding: Putting a Gun to Congress's Head | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

Of course, building a viable system of high-speed rail lines is far easier said than done. Critics of Amtrak, the government-owned corporation that currently administers America’s aging and inefficient passenger rail system, have correctly pointed out that the current system is not only unprofitable, but...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Working on the Railroad | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

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