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...video, just visit Professor Oliver R. Knill’s personal blog, easily found on the Math 21b course Web site. Knill’s blog is part of his open and informal approach to teaching. He says that developing a personal connection with students can help to prevent students from feeling overwhelmed in large lectures. “I think these courses are very hard—the typical student works very hard. They are stressed and oftentimes pushed to the limit. It can be difficult for students to feel comfortable asking questions, and engaging in discussion...
...targeted low-income properties, for renters and owners alike. For that reason, housing advocates say the $10 billion in affordable-housing funds contained in President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package is as crucial as his more ballyhooed $75 billion bailout for homeowners facing foreclosure. "It's going to prevent a much greater crisis than we otherwise would have seen," says Jaimie Ross, affordable-housing director for 1000 Friends of Florida, a community-development organization. "Without it, our homeless rates would have skyrocketed this year...
Despite the denials from the ruling party, many observers believe political opportunism may have been in play. "Put it this way: Zardari did not try to block or prevent the ruling," says Nusrat Javeed, a political commentator. "Indeed, he waited for it to take political advantage of it." Others point out that Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer recently boasted that the PPP would soon be in charge of the province...
...political crisis. "Against a backdrop of recession or economic stagnation, painful spending cuts would be extremely difficult for any government to sell to voters," he says, questioning whether such reductions would even succeed. "Drastic cuts in spending or [raising] tax risks deepening the recession, which would in itself prevent an improvement in the fiscal position...
...will be near $60 billion due to writedowns on a variety of assets including commercial real estate." The financial channel also reports that the need for capital may be so great that AIG might have to enter Chapter 11, something the government has spent over $130 billion trying to prevent. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...