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But how do you pray in times of crisis? After the fall of the twin towers, most prayers for self-preservation also included prayers for the dead and for the safety of all. That sort of bigger, more compassionate plea is not quite as automatic this time around. Is it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It OK to Pray for Your 401(k)? | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

While a merger may make sense in terms of consolidating a troubled industry as a whole, it may not make financial sense given the specifics of GM's situation. While GM has insisted its current reserves of $21 billion can help it weather the economic turmoil and continue its restructuring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Likely is a GM-Chrysler Merger? | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

In an age in which 30-second video clips and a ceaseless stream of “Flavor of Love” spin-offs have supplanted the simpler entertainments in the battle for the attentions of America’s youth, it has become very easy—too easy?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Literacy First | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

With the financial crisis leaving many Wall Street job opportunities in limbo, Harvard Business School’s prospective masters of the universe may find that they’d rather be champions of their community—and they’d be in luck.Professors V. Kasturi ?...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At HBS, Doing Good—Not Just Well | 10/5/2008 | See Source »

But reaction to the potential axing of words has revealed specialized meanings that seem to have escaped the dictionary's compilers. David Pybus, a perfumer in London, says agrestic's alternate meaning should qualify it for preservation: "It is used," he says, "in the perfume and flavor industry quite extensively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hangman, Spare That Word: The English Purge Their Language | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

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