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...Five minutes into the second half, junior Alex Chi fought off multiple Stony Brook defenders to win a free kick right outside the Seawolves’ box. Akpan curled the ball beautifully around the wall and into the bottom right corner to give Harvard the lead...
...Crimson to victory, scoring twice and adding an assist.Five minutes into the second half, Akpan gave Harvard the lead when he found the bottom right corner following a free kick right outside the penalty box. Too close to the goal to be able to shoot over the wall, Akpan coolly curled the ball around it, placing it perfectly into the side netting.His second came just three minutes later when he found some space in the box and latched onto a cross from the right side, heading the ball powerfully past the Stony Brook keeper.Akpan added an assist in the victory...
...This past Sunday, The New York Times reported on one of the financial industry’s newest tactics—to securitize not mortgages, but bought-out life insurance policies. Wall Street firms buy policies from holders, continuing to pay monthly premiums until the original policyholder dies and the firm collects the life insurance money. The way in which these policies are bundled and sold as derivatives is suspiciously reminiscent of the way mortgage-backed securities were sold to investors. Upping the ante even more is a whole new set of ethical implications that comes with buying and selling...
...Wall Street argues, albeit on weak ground, that the new model does in fact learn from the lessons of the last decade. In the mortgage-backed security market, subprime loans functioned as adversely selected “lemons,” and the mortgages most likely to fail were the ones most likely to compromise the integrity of the securitized assets. In this new market of life insurance securities, it is instead the healthy insurance candidates who are the liability. This time, to offer life insurance to the physically unhealthy—in other words, the “subprime?...
...headed overseas for his next show - a group exhibition at the New Society for Visual Arts (NGBK) gallery in Berlin on the theme of migration during the Cold War. The show is being held as part of the commemorations for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and runs from Oct. 10 to Nov. 15. It doesn't look like there will be a repeat of German reunification on the Korean peninsula anytime soon, but Sunmu can still hope. One of his strangely poignant paintings depicts a group of teenagers from the North and South - sharing Starbucks...