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...Robert Chew is a former investor with Madoff via a feeder fund. He lives in Colorado...
...will be temporary, but if the program does stay, some professors voiced worry that it may grow too large. “What you don’t want is a program that gets bigger and bigger and shifts away from faculty,” said Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson. “You want to maintain face in the classroom.” Fourteen departments are now looking to appoint College Fellows to teach three classes over the course of their one-year stint. The College Fellows program is already providing an alternative to replacing retiring professors...
...United States currently faces an approximately 20 percent probability of entering into an economic depression, according to a Wednesday Wall Street Journal opinion piece penned by Harvard Economics professor Robert J. Barro. Drawing upon the financial statistics of 251 previous stock-market crashes and 97 depressions, Barro wrote that “the odds are roughly one-in-five that the current recession will snowball into the macroeconomic decline of 10% or more that is the hallmark of a depression.” Barro also wrote that he was skeptical about the effectiveness of the current federal stimulus package...
...Obama's civilian advisers fear a quagmire. But they know that some middle ground, between a "Central Asian Valhalla," as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates put it, and the current slide into chaos, has to be found. "We have to stabilize the military situation," said an Obama aide. "Continue to build up the Afghan army, and help the government to become more effective." In other words, hope that the disintegration of Afghanistan can be prevented while waiting - and hoping - for the Pakistanis to take effective action against the al-Qaeda and Taliban safe havens...