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...tempting to say that no executive, no matter how accomplished, can fix the nation's largest banks. They can only be fixed when the credit markets themselves are repaired. Antagonists to that way of thinking would refer to Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan (JPM) who they claim can fix anything in the financial world. That point of view fails to admit that he did not break his bank in the first place...
...Adding to the confusion, the term “Senior Common Room” can be used to refer to both a physical space in the House and the group of distinguished academics and professionals who comprise the membership of a House’s SCR. As the College moves forward in its first comprehensive renovation program in 26 years, it should aggressively address this deficiency in the House system. The SCR currently seems to be suffering from a severe case of mission drift: It is unclear whether an SCR is supposed to serve as a source of academic advising...
...etymological examination further exposes meat as a decidedly non-gender-neutral term. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "meat," in its slang usage, can refer to “the human body (esp. a woman’s body) regarded as an instrument of sexual pleasure,” as well as both female and male genitalia. The less academic, but no less authoritative Urban Dictionary defines meat as both sexual intercourse (with the charming example “I’d like to meet Jessica Alba and then meat her”) and as a derogatory term...
...confused mind. His record as a member of the Senate may be unspectacular. However, it says a great deal about the state of the discourse regarding the budget that his observation is one of the few, by a ranking Senator in his party, which mentions the term "bankrupt" to refer to what could become of the American government...
...cloistered world of biblical scholarship. James Charlesworth, director of the Dead Sea Scrolls project at Princeton Theological Seminary and an expert on Josephus, says it is not unusual that the word Essenes does not appear in the scrolls. "It's a foreign label," he tells TIME. "When they refer to themselves, it's as 'men of holiness' or 'sons of light.' " Charlesworth contends that at least eight scholars in antiquity refer to the Essenes. One proof of Essene authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls, he says, is the large number of inkpots found by archaeologists at Qumran...