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...Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., Pandit said that unlike with other financial crises, proprietary trading played a much bigger role than underwriting in the recent credit crunch that nearly brought down his firm. "It makes sense to me that you don't take deposits as an institution and turn around and run a hedge fund," he told students...
Though it was tough to turn down the chance to play Division I football on a free ride, he immediately called the programs and told them he was going...
...event was attended by roughly 40 freshmen. “It was a pretty good turn out, considering it’s snowing outside,” Liles said. For future semesters, she plans on expanding the program and presenting the idea to upperclassmen for their dances as well...
...home, for the sixth consecutive hour, watching “The Wire.” Bubbles, one of the show’s most engaging characters, was a lifelong crack addict until his mid-40s, when a harrowing experience inspires him to slowly and painfully turn his life around and become clean. As he finds a steady job and reconnects with his kin, I could not help but express my happiness to my entire uninterested family, who could not understand why I was spending my entire break watching this crushingly depressing show. But seeing Bubbles’s growth partially...
...victory suggested that Republicans might catch, or even pass, the Democrats in technological know-how in the coming campaign season. The Brown campaign employed iPhone apps, YouTube videos, hash tags and Facebook to turn a long-shot, shoestring campaign into a much broader political movement. Coakley, says Rob Willington, Brown's social-media strategist, never knew what she was up against. "We ran circles around her," he says. "It was incredible." (See the best social-networking applications...