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Except, of course, if you believe that a liberal arts education should be untainted by the specter of naked greed. Ostensibly, the undergraduate experience is an opportunity to contemplate life's higher questions and learn to appreciate its more refined pleasures. Admittedly, the notion that college is a time for self-edification, shielded from the more crass concerns of the rat race, has been under assault for years. From the increasingly heated resume-padding battles of the extracurricular sphere, to the proliferation of pre-professional courses, the purely liberal education has long been on the wane--especially here at Harvard...
Reeling from financial pressure and haunted by the specter of suicides, thousands of Names agreed to a 1996 settlement Lloyd's concocted in response to legal actions and growing public outrage. Called Reconstruction and Renewal, the settlement created a reinsurance company known as Equitas that assumed responsibility for all of Lloyd's pre-1993 obligations. At the same time, Lloyd's reduced and capped the pre-1993 debts of Names who agreed to pay up and waive all claims against the company. But this global deal has raised more questions than it has answered. A committee of the House...
...Skocpol gave $218 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz donated to a campaign directly, contributing $500 to Citizens for Arlen Specter...
...build playpens for their millionaires. Bringing up the specter of moving...
...economy, the Federal Reserve chairman on Tuesday welcomed the record-making 107th month of robust economic health. It's not only its length, of course, that has been remarkable. The boom, marked by rising income, skyrocketing consumer confidence and general expansion, has also remained notably unmarred by the specter of inflation. Wages have escaped the pressure usually placed on them by a booming economy, with increased productivity - some attributed to worker "flexibility" (read longer hours), some to technological advances - absorbing much of the strain caused by ever-fattening paychecks...