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...worse comes to worse, the goal of regulators is going to be to move AIG policies to other insurance companies. That's worked in the past, but it's never been attempted with a firm of AIG's size...
...reader-reaction paranoia into post-modern mega-epic. He did do those things. But Wallace was also the greatest horror novelist ever. In Infinite Jest a corporation-run unified North America of the near-future (dates have been replaced by sponsor names, such as the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar) is being decimated by a videotape so entertaining that people watch it on a loop, mesmerized until they die of dehydration or starvation or lack of sleep. Reading it, you realize how soul-sad lonely you are. And Wallace creates that effect, like Pynchon, while being laugh...
Harvard spent $1.6 billion from its endowment to support University operations this year, an increase of nearly 25 percent over the previous years. Nevertheless, unprecedented growth in the size of the endowment meant that the University still spent less than five percent of its accumulated wealth, the number that Harvard claims is its goal. Payout rates have become a hotly debated issue in higher education in the last year as Senator Charles E. Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, began attacking what he saw as “hoarding” among schools with large and fast...
...McCain and Obama both said they wanted to expand the size of the U.S. military and encourage Americans from all socioeconomic groups to enlist. McCain said military service was part of his family's tradition and that initially he "rebelled against it," adding that he felt the draft was unfair because many wealthy Americans found ways to get out of it. Obama and McCain both suggested they would support increasing pay for the military to improve retention...
First, we need to create opportunities to serve. I'll ask more young people to serve in uniform and expand the size of our military. And I'll increase AmeriCorps--our network of local, state and national service programs--from 75,000 slots...