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...time for teamwork, especially if you’re moving from the Yard to the River or—gasp!—the Quad. Keep track of the storage schedule (all of the hours are during the day, so you’ll have to reform your vampiric ways). Figure out who in your rooming group is available to move things when, so no one is left with one hour and seven heavy boxes between the end of exams and flight home...
...fourth year of his six-year term, Calderón has managed to reform Mexico’s tax system and public pension fund as well as overhaul the electoral laws since he took office...
...weeks ago, I laid out an outline for sensible financial-reform legislation. Many of the principles of this framework look as though they will be kept in the Congress’s final bill, including a stronger consumer-protection agency and an over-the-counter exchange for derivatives. Yet as the legislation has gained steam and popularity over the last few weeks, politicians are predictably spewing populist demagoguery and wasting an opportunity to implement intelligent regulations. Congress must keep the unintended effects of their measures in mind as they finalize the legislative details on trading derivatives and supervising the Federal...
...debate continues, many Democrats and Republicans are trying to outdo each other to see who can seem “toughest” on reform, but in the process, they are failing to understand which regulations really need to be in place for the economy to function well. Derivatives trading will occur throughout the future, whether in a bank or a distant unregulated entity, and it is best if it occurs in major banks under the watchful eyes of regulators. There will be future crises with politically unpopular but necessary monetary solutions, and an independent Federal Reserve will need...
...respect and codes of honor. When we treat men like sexualized predators, men can cunningly take advantage of this constructed freedom from virtue. Maxims like “Just get consent” and “Follow the rules” are sterile abstractions that lack exhortations to reform character...