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...year ago today, the venerable investment-banking firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection after the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department pointedly refused to bail the company out, and no other Wall Street outfit was willing to step into the breach. It was the largest bankruptcy ever in the U.S., but the really big news was what happened afterward. First came a financial panic that threatened to shatter the global capitalist order, then came an unprecedented, and unprecedentedly expensive, effort by governments on both sides of the Atlantic to patch things...
...However, while we endorse these changes in policy as a step in the right direction toward providing suspected enemy combatants their legal rights as dictated by the Geneva Conventions, we see the current slate of measures as insufficient and hope that they presage more actions in the near future. Much remains to be done to see that all those detained by the United States are provided with due process...
...height of their powers. Liddell is taking a break from fighting, Carter is trying to put some tabloid antics behind him, and Natalie Coughlin is a swimmer - most recognizable when wearing a skull-hugging cap. They're on the show because they're looking for the next step or another chance...
...schedule in the spring and summer.“The seniors last year were huge assets to the team,” junior crew Grace Charles said. “They provided great leadership and we will miss them, but we have many freshmen this season ready to step up. We weren’t able to have a preseason this year with school starting earlier, so the freshmen are going to have to adjust quickly.” The women’s squad provided the highlight of the Crimson’s first weekend of competition, finishing fourth...
...competitiveness. “A young team is a good thing,” Tachibana said. “We have a couple years to bond and build on one another.”“This is a huge opportunity for young players to step up and take a lead role,” Green said. “It was definitely a big loss, losing Ko, an All-Ivy player, and Peterzan, our former captain and great Ivy talent, but our young players, especially freshmen, really stepped it up this first weekend.”Harvard controlled...