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...that the bank stress tests are completed, is it time to plan another round? The government's bank exams, the results of which were released in early May, seem to have calmed the market and paved the way for the nation's largest financial firms to raise tens of billions of dollars. As a result, a number of academics and policy watchers are warming to the idea of making the stress tests permanent. They like the fact that the stress tests have restored confidence in most of the nation's largest banks. What's more, they argue that even...
...recent round of budget cuts, the administration seemingly forgot to include student safety in their cost-benefit analysis. During these tough economic times, it is understandable that FAS must cut a number of costs to preserve Harvard’s solvency, but the move to dramatically reduce shuttle service is an especially poor choice for a cut, as it severely compromises student safety for an incommensurate financial gain. The proposed cuts to night shuttle service create a variety of hazards and constraints in the lives of students, as do the inconvenient cuts to morning service on weekends...
...slash House budgets were made without real input from the communities affected by these cuts. Going forward, we are concerned that this pattern will continue as future cuts are announced over the summer and into the fall, when student input will be even more limited than during these first round of cuts...
...easier it is to lose perspective, to mistake a shift in body language for a breakthrough, to mistake a breakthrough for a solution. And so it was slightly disconcerting to hear Richard Holbrooke, our very best diplomatic negotiator, deploying words like "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" to describe the recent round of talks with delegations from Afghanistan and Pakistan in Washington, during a White House briefing for columnists just after the talks ended. He was flanked by General David Petraeus, who reinforced Holbrooke's message. The talks "exceeded my expectations," the general said. A good deal of this is, obviously, puffery designed...
...incident of the midnight swimmer came just weeks before Suu Kyi's latest round of house arrest was set to expire. But, even prior to the charges stemming from Yettaw's visit, another of her laywers said that her latest appeal for freedom had been denied by the junta. Some international observers had hoped that the military regime would soften its grip on Suu Kyi as the country prepares for elections next year. The army government calls the polls the final step in its formation of a "discipline-flourishing democracy." But scores of NLD members languish in jail, and intimidation...