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...becoming so desperate that it may offer a program to exchange its $28 billion in unsecured debt for equity in the company. The bondholders would not get a penny under the plan being proposed. The GM shares they would receive may be worthless in a year if the car company cannot mount a furious comeback against both the economy and more well-financed and adroit competitors from Asia. GM is so close to being put into Chapter 11, effectively at the hands of the federal government, that its offer of equity-for-debt will probably by-pass the powerful committee...
...students, two separate parents and a part-time employee interviewed by TIME - some of whom are involved in the inquiry - Mount Bachelor Academy regularly uses intensely humiliating tactics as treatment. For instance, in required seminars that the school calls Lifesteps, students say staff members of the residential program have instructed girls, some of whom say they have been victims of rape or sexual abuse, to dress in provocative clothing - fishnet stockings, high heels and miniskirts - and perform lap dances for male students as therapy...
...Sever Hall yesterday evening. Seventeen students gathered to hear Glenda R. Carpio—an associate professor of African and African-American Studies—and Jigna Desai—a visiting associate professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department—praise a newly-proposed ethnic studies program, which they said would allow students to discuss questions of racial and ethnic identity in an academic setting. “People end up talking in dorm rooms or over this kind of food, which are very powerful media,” she said over a table of desserts from...
...contemporary field of AIDS research and prevention, at least, does not accord the data such dignity. Dr. Green and those who concur with his findings run counter to the prevailing prejudices. Leftist politicians continue to malign and censure the Pope for his opinions, and the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS shuns “evidence-based” for “evidence-informed” advocacy, willfully blind to any scientific proof that questions its pre-conceived solutions...
...orchards in the heart of rural Punjab. He trumpeted the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, a welfare scheme for the poor that offers a minimum of 100 days of paid work to one person per family per year, and boasted about the Congress Party's $14 billion loan-waiver program for farmers, the largest ever in India. There have been widespread reports of money being siphoned off from these programs, but Gandhi deflected those criticisms, instead blaming corruption and inefficiency on the Punjab state government, which is controlled by a regional rival of the Congress Party. "The money disappears...