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...sure, Cantor hasn't escaped the biggest financial meltdown in decades unscathed. The firm was a prominent player in the trading of credit default swaps, and that market for bond insurance has been battered by the rising defaults in home loans and other debts. Worse, some politicians and regulators, irked by the huge losses rung up by AIG in CDS contracts, have talked about creating a central exchange, much like the New York Stock Exchange, where the bond insurance would trade. Some have proposed doing away with CDS all together. Those changes would significantly curtail, or wipe out, Cantor...
...sent there in part because of promiscuous behavior as a teen, which Maisa associates with being a victim of child sexual abuse and date rape. "Mount Bachelor made me feel even more dirty and more shameful than either one of those experiences ever did. I just want to make sure the things I suffered through there never happen again," Maisa says...
Walruses are interesting because the last census on them was done in 1990, when they estimated that there were about 200,000 walrus. But how do you account for walruses? They did it via airplane, by flying over them and literally counting them. You have to make sure you're counting them all but not double-counting. When you don't have an accurate baseline you don't have a good understanding of how the species works and what the threat is. Walrus are an ice-dependent species so there are also climate change concerns. The loss...
...having 41 different sports.” Some Crimson athletes have already seen what they say are subtle attempts by the athletics department to save. “I’ve definitely noticed, at least in track, we’ve been doing some budgeting, making sure that we are not getting unnecessary equipment and the like,” said junior cross country captain Kelsey B. LeBuffe ’10. “Some minor constraints, but nothing major.” Harvard Director of Athletic Communications Kurt Svoboda made it clear in an e-mail that...
...never be certain how the University will respond,” she said. “But right now, we want to make sure they know that this is something that means a lot to people on campus, and that it’s not going to be a one time...