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...which investment banker should be paid what amount would have taken too long. The second was that he did not want to appear to be the de facto CEO of all the companies which got TARP money. He decided that in this crisis the banking executives would have to use their own discretion in the use of the money. He chose to leave this decision to their boards and not the Treasury. And as it became clear that the government would have to put up more money, Paulson did act behind the scenes to make sure that bank CEOs received...
...Since 9/11, most statistics on race and police reports have been made exempt from public disclosure. The last available large-scale study was a 1999 Bureau of Justice Statistics report: “Use of Force By Police: Overview of National and Local Data.” This comparative study of arrests in Miami-Dade County and Eugene, Oregon, found that in all use-of-force incidents in which the officers used a chemical agent, baton, gun, or other special weapons, 57 percent of the suspects were black, 28 percent were Latino, and only 15 percent were white. More recent...
Furthermore, this year's online Q Guide is poorly designed and hard to use. The list of course names one is expected to navigate shows only the numbers, not the titles, of courses—a baffling departure from previous years. There are also no links to navigate from one course to the next without returning to the main menu, making browsing all of the courses in a department tedious...
...applicant’s highest test scores and have allowed students to decide whether they wanted to send all their test scores. The new Score Choice policy aligns well with our belief that the individual student owns his or her test scores and is entitled to direct their use. That same belief in the importance of the individual applicant’s freedom—and responsibility—to choose how best to make the case for admission underlies our long-standing invitation to submit essays, CDs, academic or creative projects, or anything else that best represents academic, extracurricular...
...general cuts in education that this loss symbolizes. The Rose, home to Brandeis’s 6,000-object art collection, was approaching its 50th anniversary, but may not make it to that milestone. On Monday, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to close the museum and use its collection—worth an estimated $350 million—in order to generate funds to cover the University’s looming multimillion-dollar budget deficit. While the plan has been met with considerable opposition from several long-time donors to the Rose and from student protests, the University...