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...Despite widely televised Congressional hearings in recent weeks on financial reform, 75% of those polled expect Wall Street to return to dangerous activities. Americans clearly want action: some 62% believe financial regulations need to be tougher, and 67% want the government to force pay cuts on top executives at Wall Street firms that received government bailout money. It's a bit of a turnaround for a country that has been leaning toward the less-regulation-is-better model of government. Yet most people are still wary of giving Washington too much say in running businesses. The majority...
...looks good now, but the benefit of hindsight will always change the evaluation of an investment. Smart management demands flexibility—this does not preclude conservative investment, but the willingness to take risks is a critical characteristic of successful money management. Such risk can, of course, generate significant return, as evidenced by the success of Harvard’s managers before the credit crunch. A bad episode (in this case historically bad) will naturally give pause but should not force Harvard to abandon more risky investments in the future if such investments are the smart choice. The entire Harvard...
...France, after which it would be shipped back to Iran to power the Tehran medical research reactor. Western governments, which fear that Iran has already stockpiled enough enriched uranium to be reprocessed into a single bomb, like that the deal would remove most of Tehran's stockpile and return it in a state difficult for Iran to weaponize. Though there are no signs that Iran is working on turning its uranium into a bomb, the West wants the material moved out of Iran in a single shipment, and by the end of this year. That way, they say, it will...
...Homecoming is expanded to the undergraduate population in the coming years, the reason to return may become apparent. Until then, the Crimson faithful will have to endure the embarrassment of a vacant student section and a slipshod tradition...
...There are daily confrontations between the old guard and the new guard, says Hassan Bakir, chairman of the Palestinian Center for Research and Documentation in Beirut. They are tired of listening to Abbas, who hasn't lived up to his promises. The new guard is calling for a return to resistance. (See pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza...