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...also created a massive conflict of interest, often cited in the current mortgage mess. In 2006, the SEC took regulatory authority over the agencies, in part because of their failure to ring more alarm bells concerning companies like Enron. SEC head Mary Schapiro is now signaling that the ratings system might need to be changed further, particularly who pays for ratings...
...author of the staff editorial needs to learn that not everything misaligned with his or her political ideology is malicious. Single-sex education is not about segregation or sexism. Single-sex education is not about replacing the gender-integrated system; it’s about providing an alternative that some students find more fitting...
...said, students tend to make their travel plans “too late, at too high a cost, and with too little information.” The two other big winners last night were INeedAPencil.com, the free SAT prep service, and PortaGuide, an iPhone application with Global Positioning System capacities that functions as a tour guide around the Big Apple. Each of the teams represented at last night’s I3 awards ceremony had at least one undergraduate member—a stipulation of the Challenge, which was presented by the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum, Harvard Student Agencies...
...Harvard’s greatest figures was President Eliot, who governed the University from 1869 to 1909. He expanded the student body and eliminated the College’s fixed curriculum of Latin, Greek, logic, and other prescribed subjects, replacing it with a free-for-all elective system. Of academic subjects, he said, “We would have them all, and at their best...
...president who succeeded Eliot—Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877—moved away from Eliot’s elective system, instead requiring students to declare concentrations...