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Strange Tentfellows Muammar Gaddafi was the Saddam Hussein of his day; America's Public Enemy No. 1. Ronald Reagan sent jets to bomb his compound in 1986 after Libyan agents blew up a Berlin disco popular with U.S. soldiers. Gaddafi's regime sold arms to the I.R.A., brought down Pan...
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) will limit financial assistance to graduates who pursue low-paying public service jobs, in a move that sparked an all-night protest by students who said they will be stuck with tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
“There’s something wrong when Harvard is upping tuition and firing service workers while paying fund managers tens of millions of dollars a year and planning a multi-billion dollar expansion in Allston,” Mahan wrote in an e-mail. ?...
The dirty little secret among security experts is that our society and economy are fragile. Shopping malls, casinos, theme parks and stadiums share a vulnerability to the sort of attacks seen in Madrid. In all these places, as with train stations, tens of thousands of people push through essentially unguarded...
In opting for that higher rate, though, homeowners win only if rates rise. If rates remain stable or fall, the ARM is by far the better deal because the rate starts out low and automatically adjusts downward without the cost of refinancing. Beyond that, Greenspan said, fixed-rate borrowers pay...