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...letter to Halsey’s family, Stuart C. Wulsin ’06 recalled a time when Halsey rescued an inebriated student from the Cabot House roof by devising a contraption made from rope and a harness...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cabot Alum Dies at Age 26 | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

Retail banks and investment banks have fundamentally different functions and thus different appetites for risk. Retail banks are low-risk ventures; their deposits are insured by the FDIC. Investment banking is more lucrative but involves greater risk. When these two businesses are placed under the same roof, the result is a severe conflict of interest...

Author: By Anthony P. Dedousis | Title: Too Big to Fail is Too Big | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

Swathed in blankets on the roof of the Science Center, students chatted, took pictures, and waited for the few visible meteors to appear. As time wore on, one student began playing star-themed music like “Yellow” by Coldplay and “Fireflies” by Owl City on laptop speakers...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meteors Disappoint Watching Students | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...icon Tricky and art-rock legend Lou Reed, the immense 39,000-sq-m space was renovated by architectural firm Atelier Novembre. It boasts artist studios, designer boutiques, a café, a bookshop, a children's area and even a free-standing pizza truck under its soaring glass roof, which echoes the spectacular glass-domed Grand Palais rather more closely than the set of Six Feet Under. (See 50 essential travel tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Paris Funeral Home Becomes an Art Center | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...degree, of course, three generations living under one roof has long happened in the U.S., but in the 20th century, America became a particularly mobile and rootless society. It is hard to care for one's parents when they live three time zones away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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