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...world of finance--maybe only one: make money--and even those are starting to come unbuttoned. In the past 10 years, decades of regulations--such as the Glass-Steagall Act, passed in the Depression to help limit risk following a banking-system failure--have been all but abandoned, a testament to the fact that all markets move on--and none faster than money markets. The last time this happened was in 1982, when the Garn-St. Germain Act repealed old regulations and allowed savings and loans to graze for investments in areas like real estate and mineral development. The result...
...politically active. One in particular is crammed with "Workers of the world, unite!" in at least 30 languages, crowned by pictures of Karl Marx, Mao Zedong and, yes, Captain Picard. The residents have a lighthearted sense of humor about their hippie legacy and its accoutrements, which is a testament to the open-mindedness of most Coop members. As resident Thomas C. Munro '99 explains with a quirky smile, "As long as in one way or another you're on the pink side of the line, you're accepted here...
...film-making student a few years ago built an elaborate backyard henhouse for a movie he was making, but fellow co-op residents, concerned about the animals, allowed them all to escape. The chickens and VES concentrator may be gone, but the graying wooden structure remains as an amusing testament to a very different and oft-unappreciated type of Harvard life...
That the team's newcomers have performed so well is certainly also a testament to the strong play and leadership of the teams veterans...
...their own genius, strength and amazing grace, not to what Novak seem to believe was American generosity. And what of the not-so-successful blacks, those constituting the majority of the black population whose lives on the bottom rung of America's social and economic ladder are a testament to slavery's continuing legacy? Their predicament stands in answer to Buchanan's observations that because we as a nation today are different from antebellum America, this nation has nothing to repent. The point is that the consequences of slavery persist in plaguing a whole segment of American citizens. While...