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...because the average stockholder believes that he was cheated. Corporations promoted their prospects. Almost none of them warned of the downturn in the economy or in their own business. Public companies turned themselves into charlatans, not because of what they said, but because of what they did not say. When businesses went bad, nearly everyone at big American companies became quiet. For Wall St. the silence was a betrayal and one which won't be forgotten...
...President Barack Obama has signaled that he would favor a cash-for-clunkers-style program, saying in a speech on March 30 that he wanted to work with Congress on finding money for rebates in existing stimulus spending. And similar programs already in place in Germany and other European countries have proved very successful - thanks to continental Europe's cash-for-clunkers plan, analysts say that European car sales are now running at more than 13 million vehicles a year, up from an 11 million pace at the start of the year. "It has been pretty successful...
...great deal of research in the past decade has shown how this process works. In 2000, psychologists Mark Muraven and Roy Baumeister published an influential paper in which they observed that self-control is like a muscle: it weakens after you use it. For example, say you exert self-control by avoiding strawberry shortcake and opting for asparagus instead. Now your self-control is enfeebled, so rather than turning to that Tolstoy novel you vowed to finish, you watch a Simpsons rerun instead. Your self-regulatory resources can also be expended by, for instance, taking a test or enduring...
...Adopting the Collegian’s motto of “Dulce est Periculum” or “Danger is Sweet,” the publication has transgressed boundaries since its inception, for example, advocating coeducation at Harvard when the notion still remained radical. Members say that rather than obliging the magazine to conform to tradition, the Advocate’s history actually allows it to push forward and serves as a “springboard, not a shackle,” according to documents from the Advocate’s archives...
Despite constant reminders of the past, members say that the Advocate’s history neither defines nor restricts the organization...