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Some see this as a smart move. Last week, Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urging him to consider giving TARP funds to more small banks, even those that might fail without government assistance. "Comparatively modest assistance from the government now could make a significant difference to these banks, their customers, and their communities, as well as help ensure the fledgling recovery we are seeing in our economy continues," wrote Reid...
...post within FAS.“I have no idea whether she’s being considered for other positions, but I certainly hope so,” said Stephen M. Kosslyn, FAS’ dean of social science. “She’s very strategic, very smart, and very practical—and that’s quite a combination.”FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVEThough Gorodentsev said she would love to continue working at Harvard, one of her greatest passions lies beyond the Yard. She previously served as the administrative director for the President?...
...just a game of chance. It rewards knowledge and it makes kids look good. Part of the appeal of it for me - and I see it in fan mail - is all these letters from teachers saying, "You've made it cool to be smart again. Thank you." (See the top 10 T.V. Dads...
Nancy Talbot was the Doyenne of American mail-order fashion. Talbot, who died on Aug. 30 at 89 of complications from Alzheimer's disease, founded the eponymous clothing store and catalog business with her husband Rudolf in 1947. Together they created a style she described as "smart but not faddy, fashionable but not funky, chic and understated...
...many of the architectural features of the new stadium are groundbreaking in themselves. The best of them are smart adaptations, well deployed. In particular, the arches and glass walls call to mind the new Wembley Stadium in London, a Foster design that Jones liked enough to visit three times on idea-gathering travels he and his wife Gene made to stadiums, airports and even shopping malls. Over the past few years, Gene also headed a project that commissioned site-specific works for the stadium by artists like Franz Ackermann, Mel Bochner and Olafur Eliasson, museum-quality names whose work...