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...heartening to see that at a time when so many things - credit, confidence, consumer demand - are in short supply, our political leaders are still able to muster such bounteous supplies of outrage. Outraged people often do dumb things, though, and my initial reaction to the many declarations of fury was to roll my eyes and mutter something about this being a trivial distraction from the Important Things we need to be dealing with. (I suspect that similar sentiments on the part of Geithner and Summers largely explain their politically tone-deaf handling of the bonus affair.) (See 25 people...
...Department and the Federal Reserve worried (with reason) that another failure - in particular, the failure of a firm that wrote default insurance for banks around the world - might wipe out the global financial system and unleash an economic catastrophe far worse than what we're going through now. In short, the people at AIG FP, the very division that wrote the default-insurance contracts that dug AIG into such a hole, got their bonuses by holding the global economy hostage. (Read "How AIG Became Too Big to Fail...
...Safe Zone In most middle and high schools around the country, sex education is handled by an athletic coach doubling as a health teacher or by a science instructor who drew the short straw. Kristen Jordan is not one of those teachers. Walk past her classroom on the first day of sixth grade and you'll hear her leading the students in an enthusiastic chorus of "Penis! Penis! Penis! Vagina! Vagina! Vagina!" "Until they can use the real names for their body parts without giggling," she explains, "you can't talk to them about anything serious." The attractive 27-year...
...intentionally a wedding-dress-free zone. Claire would like Ray Koval (Owen) to love her, but it's clear she'd survive without him. Their relationship is not a road to an altar; it's about being with someone who gets you. It's mature love, in short, even if it's set in a glamorous cloak-and-dagger world where the goal is to scam the bosses into funding your fabulous lifestyle...
Kathleen E. Hale ’09 won the Louis Begley Prize for Fiction for her short story about a young girl who channels her fear about her mother’s cancer diagnosis into an obsession with “bloodthirsty” and “scary” animals. The $1000 prize—which was established in 2000 in honor of former Harvard Advocate editor and contributor Louis Begley ’54—is awarded by the Advocate’s Board of Trustees each year to the best undergraduate fiction piece published...