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...interested in militarizing the border.' PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, on a request by Texas Governor Rick Perry to send 1,000 National Guard troops to police the Texas-Mexico border in the face of rising drug violence. Obama said he would consider such a move only as a "last resort...
...Jeremy Patashnik '12 said he was not fooled. "[The e-mail] made a reference to "'you have to clear out your dirty laundry from your room,'" the astute lad noted. "I figured a serious maintenance request would not ask that...
...While most Class of 2013 groups are formed by admitted students, Emerson is one of the few schools that runs its own Facebook page. "This is completely new for us," says Mike Petroff, Emerson's Web manager, who started the group in January at the request of an early-decision applicant. Petroff responds to students' questions - When is the open house? How do they set up their e-mail accounts? - and even plans to post video tours of the college for students who can't visit Emerson in person. But for the most part, he sits back and lets...
...largest sellers of such contracts. Much of the credit insurance AIG sold was on mortgage bonds, which are backed by home loans. As more and more homeowners defaulted, many of those bonds plummeted in value, causing the holders of AIG's CDS contracts to request payment. AIG used money it had received from the government to pay off those contracts...
...President Barack Obama. The remaining point of disagreement, which threatened until the last minute to derail the consensus so devoutly wished for by all parties, centered on tax havens. Sarkozy was determined that a list of tax havens that refuse to provide information to foreign tax authorities on request should be published immediately by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as part of a clampdown on such havens. China, not a member of the OECD, was stalling because of its concern that such a list might include Macau and Hong Kong, which have both recently moved...