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...Baroque class, I am entirely out of place in a sea of pastels and high ponytails. The population is almost exclusively female and everyone seems to have carefully preened for the Caravaggio slides. This leads to vivid freshman year recollections of a lecture by Stanley Cavell in which my inadequacy of style was all too obvious. The room was full of a kind of person I had never known before at Harvard: a bunch of 19-year-olds looking more fiercely European than any European ever could...
...banks sponsoring the event were Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse First Boston, UBS, BOA, Lehman Brothers, Wachovia, Citigroup, JPMorgan, Lazard, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley...
...appointments for judges, including those at the federal level. Judges should be required to retire at age 70. We could extend that rule to all those employed by the Federal Government - including members of Congress and the President. We have too many old folks sending young folks to war. Stanley A. Green Stockton, California, U.S. Everybody's Encyclopedia Your story on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia [July 18] was encouraging to those of us working on the project of an international encyclopedia. As a longtime linguist who speaks 27 languages and is an enthusiast of multicultural relations among peoples all over...
...expected global economic growth to slow?thus curbing some demand for crude?as oil passed $40 and then $50 per barrel have been proved wrong. "Warnings that [$50-a-barrel oil] would threaten a global downturn turned out to be too pessimistic," says Richard Berner, an economist at Morgan Stanley in New York. With prices threatening to bust through $70, though, the chances of an energy-related economic slump are growing by the week...
...significantly. If other companies feel a similar pinch, as Simpfendorfer fears, that could crimp one of the main drivers of China's current economic boom?spending by companies to build and equip new factories and other businesses. While the economy is still growing at an impressive clip, says Morgan Stanley's Xie, the trend toward deceleration "is pretty clear...