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...Although Kagan informed students last Friday that the new scheme would apply to students matriculating in the fall of 2009—that is, next year’s first-year class—the specifics of a possible transition are as of yet undetermined. A town hall meeting held by the dean last Thursday in order to gather student opinion on the time table for the new system revealed a diversity of opinion...
...often easy to let a lot of life’s nuance pass by unnoticed. On alternate Wednesdays, Marina S. Magloire ’11 will call attention to these moments and to expound upon their hilarity, their poignancy, and their meaning in the grander scheme of things...
...wrote. Representative Darrell Issa pushed a plan that he has advocated since the beginning of the meltdown to issue recovery bonds. And other ideas were also being touted again, such as loaning the money to Wall Street firms rather than buying their toxic mortgage-backed assets, plus an insurance scheme whereby Wall Street firms would pay to have the securities insured rather than taken off their hands...
...crime of the century" if said century is only a decade old. What Blum doesn't seem to realize, though, is that repeating the phrase "crime of the century" two dozen times doesn't actually make it so - there are 90 years to go, brother. In the grand scheme of things, the bombing of the Times building is a fairly minor incident that has resulted in a fairly minor book...
...School students expressed mixed views on the new grading scheme. Several said they felt it was unlikely to change their peers’ study habits or employment prospects...