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...grew so large in the first place. In 1999, Congress passed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, allowing retail banks (which accept deposits and issue personal loans), investment banks (which trade securities and manage corporate acquisitions), and insurers to merge. Subsequently, the pace of bank mergers accelerated, creating gigantic one-stop financial shops. When these banks teetered on the brink last year, Congress, fearing that their collapse would cause economic cataclysm, was forced to bail them...
This was more than just a coincidence. Three days earlier, I was meant to navigate a trying ordeal because the planets were misaligned—and I couldn’t use credit at Boston Tea Stop. A week earlier, I was supposed to undergo a difficult negotiation, and I had a face-off on that narrow little sidewalk down Plympton when some frail little freshman was skittering in the other direction. There was only room...
...Harvard student. The legacy of the folk music revival lives on in Cambridge today, if you know where to look. You can still tune in to WHRB’s “Blues Department” or “Hillbilly at Harvard”, and you can stop by Club Passim on any day of the week to hear some of the top up-and-coming performers...
...Books give us the sense that knowledge is masterable,” Weinberger said. “Links are a new type of punctuation that, instead of telling you where to stop, tell us to continue...
When the revelry comes to an end on Sunday, hop the 9:30 a.m., 4:30 p.m., or 7:30 p.m. bus back to Harvard Square. The Cambridge stop is only a little ways away at 1 Bennett Street, which is right in front of The Charles Hotel. The Thanksgiving tickets are currently priced at $17 each way, but the regular price will...