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...Researchers at Harvard Business School studied the British system and found that it achieved one of its major goals - reducing big paydays at companies that aren't doing well. That was especially true at firms handing out the most compensation, a particularly relevant finding considering the size of some Wall Street packages...
...that type of confidence that serves as our light in the climatic darkness, living proof that hope hasn't vanished. You need that comfort when you're standing on a rocky hilltop in Greenland, watching the ice disappear. As Jakobshavn gives way to the fjord, a stadium-size iceberg suddenly implodes, disintegrating like a collapsing skyscraper. I watch as a plume of mist fills the air where the iceberg once was, while the fjord churns on. And then I wonder, Just how much time do Greenland and the rest of us have before it's too late? That...
...first Graduate Student Council meeting of the 2008-2009 academic year yesterday, President Kyle M. Brown addressed a packed crowd—one whose size vastly exceeded its energy. “So we have a little bit of business,” Brown said. “I love meetings that end early.” At the brief meeting yesterday, the executive board of the Graduate Council, the student government of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, announced deadlines for fall conference grants and student group funding, provided updates on the Parental Accommodation report for student parents...
...large classes can be criticized for their impersonal feel, Michael J. Sandel, the government professor who has taught “Justice” for years, pointed to the merits of engaging with hundreds of undergraduates together in one room. “One advantage [of a big class size] is that, with so many students reading and thinking about the same questions, the ‘Justice’ discussions spill out of Sanders Theater and into the Yard, the houses, and the dining halls,“ he said. John D. Sedlacek...
...last 20 years Wall Street built what amounted to a parallel finance system that was specifically designed to avoid the banking safeguards implemented after the crash of 1929, which limited how much an institution could be leveraged in exchange for stability. The shadow system grew nearly to the size of the real banking system, and its demise now threatens both. "As much as I don't want to be here asking for this, it pains me to do this, we believe that this is much less costly than the alternative," Paulson said this morning. "The taxpayer is already...