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...Fair-value accounting, also known as mark-to-market accounting, requires banks to price assets on their balance sheets according to what you can sell them for on the open market. Seems logical enough. But how do you mark to market when the market is effectively shut down...
...filled out with sloppy, half-improvised guitar solos and plenty of feedback, as well as the similarly electrocuted Richard Hell favorite, “The Kid With The Replaceable Head.” A gnashing, two-part race through the Beach Boys’ early single, “Shut Down,” and a punchy one-off of the Zantee’s “So Easy Baby” are so catchy they’d be radio friendly, band name and album title aside. But the finest moment on “Fuckbook?...
Most impressive, though, was how Dartmouth was able to shut down Harvard’s two most dangerous weapons, sophomore Emma Markley and co-captain Emily Tay. The two lead the Crimson in scoring, averaging 14.1 and 12.8 points per game respectively. Markley and Tay’s success this season has been due, in large part, to their athleticism...
Dartmouth’s speed on the court allowed the team to use a quick double team to shut down Markley and Tay, and the Big Green was never really challenged by the Harvard offense...
Stephen Bosworth, the diplomat President Barack Obama appointed to the thankless task of trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear-weapons program, got quite a reception when he arrived on his first official visit to Seoul this week. The North Korean government in Pyongyang shut down the last military communication line between the two countries on the divided peninsula, temporarily halted all transit to and from a special industrial zone just north of the border and declared that if the U.S. or Japan should try to shoot down a long-range missile the North is expected...