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We launched our web site, IvyGate, last July on the premise that the students of the Ivy League are ridiculous enough to deserve, well, ridicule. If Page Six and The Chronicle of Higher Education had a one-night stand, we’d be their illegitimate daughter.
Despite the weeks of preparation and effort by the students involved in planning these events, a significant number of Harvard students always felt that they could do it better and were ready to tell us how ridiculous we were for not being able to, for example, control the weather.
If authorities hoped the rate increase would tempt small investors to keep money in the bank rather than dump it into an overpriced equity market, they're likely to be disappointed. Savings accounts in China yield about 3%. With annual inflation running at about the same rate, that's no...
By Monday all was quiet, but rearguard actions are being fought. Legislators belonging to the opposition Kuomintang (KMT)-the party Chiang headed for 50 years on both sides of the Taiwan Strait until his death in 1975 at the age of 87-have called the hall's name change illegal...
To think otherwise would be ridiculous. Everyone is exposed to the same externalities, and as colleges are becoming more diverse—especially socioeconomically—the line between the college-educated and everyone else is getting more blurry.