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...aside an additional $40 billion in capital to replenish reserves after this year's stretch of disasters. While most firms will be able to fortify reserves without endangering their net worth, many fringe firms could face insolvency. In those cases, state regulators may be called in to fill the void through guaranty funds...
Harvard should think seriously about what to do to solve this problem. If they don't change the system to a more positive note, House stereotypes and segregation will become more noticeable. Soon Houses will be completely void of the kind of diversity of race, gender and interest that the system hoped to foster...
They believe that lovers or babies will fill the void left by hateful, negligent and even abusive parents. Violence becomes both an outlet and a source of their anger. Some of these people are incorrigible, but the others do the same thing you would in their shoes. On top of all that, they taint the lives of the ordinary citizens in the neighborhoods with the fear of death and the reminder that hard work rarely gets you anywhere if you are from the ghetto...
...restock its repertoire of folklore and self-images and archetypes. The 1992 presidential campaign has made its noisy way across a nation that has lost many of its defining ideas about itself. The cold war's end gave Americans only a kind of abstract triumph -- and left a void. The collapse of communism and the Soviet empire suddenly removed the dark moral counterweight by which Americans measured their own virtue. Chronic recession, the rise of Japanese and European economic competitors, the vast inflow of immigrants from non-European sources (strangers to the older American tradition), the shrinking of the buffering...
Making Love is best read after Rhodes' A Hole in the World, a memoir of his mother's suicide, his stepmother's abuse and his father's weakness. The boy's loveless childhood now becomes the man's sexual void, an emptiness that can never be filled...