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...Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present Edited by Scott Plagenhoef and Ryan Schreiber Simon & Schuster, 208 pages...
...bailout, which proved to be far more expensive than the current Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, had anticipated. But Geithner has withheld judgment in public on key issues, like an ambitious program to modify bad home loans that has run into opposition from White House conservatives. He owes his present job in part to his ability, while at Treasury in the Clinton Administration, to stand up to Summers, according to New York University president John Sexton, who led the committee that chose Geithner for the New York Fed. "Summers told us that Tim was one of the very few people...
While long, written general exams used to be standard across departments, Classics is the only one that still requires students to pass a comprehensive test of that length to graduate, according to Director of Undergraduate Studies Mark J. Schiefsky, who is on the review committee that will present the proposal to the full department next month...
...Classics professors on the review committee will present their plans to colleagues at a department meeting on Dec. 2, when the proposal may come to a vote...
...chieftains of the al-Hais family, on the outskirts of the provincial capital. Some 300 tribal elders have gathered here, most of them in traditional garb, and much of the morning has been taken up with the elaborate Arab rituals of salutation. Every newcomer must greet every person already present with handshakes, hugs and kisses - on the cheek to show friendship, on the shoulder for respect. Then there are the endless cups of tea and coffee. The early arrivals bask patiently in the November sun as they wait for the laggards...