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...Arshad said recently.When she came to campus, she jokingly told her roommate that she was considering majoring in Folklore and Mythology, and then decided she should actually check it out.Today, Arshad is a Folk and Myth concentrator, with a focus on medicine in medieval Spain, who is planning to apply to medical school.A BRIDGE AND A WINDOWWhen Arshad first visited Warren House, home to Folk and Myth, she was struck by how friendly and helpful the faculty and administrators were.“Everybody’s who’s involved with it wants to be there...
...leading banking expert. The fact that Ireland had previously issued an even more sweeping guarantee hardly shielded Germany from criticism: as Europe's biggest economy, it sets a massive precedent. Indeed, since Merkel's announcement, Denmark, Sweden and Austria have taken steps to offer stronger guarantees to their depositors. Spain is reportedly considering a move to follow suit, and British politicians were in talks with banks on Monday night about a stopgap measure to inject government funds into selected institutions...
...year. Even shares of some of the biggest and seemingly most solid financial institutions such as Royal Bank of Scotland have been mauled. Some depositors have taken fright, too. A day after the U.K. Treasury announced the nationalization of Bradford & Bingley and the sale of its branches to Spain's Banco Santander, Kusum Patel, a 50-year-old chef from Ilford, a gritty commuter suburb 9 miles (14.5 km) northeast of central London, withdrew all her savings and closed her account, as did several other customers. "They say it's going down. I've been hearing it on the radio...
...McCain--a "winner" on The Page--looked lost and frantic [Sept. 29]. He praised our economic fundamentals, then redefined them. He opposed the AIG bailout until he was for it. He attacked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, then confused it with the Federal Election Commission. He even misplaced Spain. Senator Barack Obama, by contrast, was calm and reassuring, meeting with economic grownups and continuing his longtime advocacy of the kind of realistic regulations that might have helped prevent the financial catastrophe we find ourselves in. If ever there was a week the Democrats won, this was it. Jeffrey...
...Pirates have plagued seafarers for millennia. Homer and Cicero noted incidents involving ancient Greek and Roman mariners, and Western Europeans weathered Viking onslaughts during the Middle Ages. In the 16th and 17th centuries, monarchs frustrated by Spain's dominance of the Caribbean commissioned privateers to harass the Spanish fleet-helping to usher in piracy's golden age, when swashbuckling marauders like Edward (Blackbeard) Teach roamed the sun-splashed islands, plundering gold and silver...