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...began to weigh the statement I had initially deemed ridiculous: could I, a premed who had never written a story in her life, add anything to one of the best college newspapers in the country...
...researchers cite no shortage of examples. Meerkats, whose societies are rich enough to have sustained a wildly popular television series - Meerkat Manor - don't weigh in with a whole lot of gray matter relative to their body size. The same holds true for hyenas and mongooses - albeit without the TV following. Bears, small cats and weasels, on the other hand, pack a lot of brain into their heads yet prefer to go it alone. (See pictures of animals in love...
...nation's largest banks. The 10 banks that were deemed in the test to not have enough capital were given until June 8 to present Treasury with a plan for how they will raise the required funds. Besides reviewing the plans, government officials have said they plan to weigh in on whether they think the banks' leadership is adequate as well. One of the main factors the government will reportedly be looking at is whether the banks have a sufficiently deep bench of financially savvy board members. And that has a number of banks scrambling to make changes...
Then an unlikely figure entered the fray: Angela Merkel. German Chancellors don't usually weigh in on church matters, she said. But when the Vatican gave "the impression that it could be possible to deny that the Holocaust happened," she felt compelled to demand that the Pope repudiate the idea, lest it affect relations with "the Jewish people as a whole." In essence, Merkel (a Protestant) was tutoring the German Pope on his responsibilities to the Jews...
...concerned students, the proper strategy in such a debate is not to trust the “appropriate authorities” to properly weigh interests against values through their own beneficent intelligence. If students don’t subscribe to a decision, the proper response is to shout our values from the rooftops. Indeed, facing a college administration that came of academic age in the sixties and seventies, little else but “radicalism” would suffice to convince such college functionaries that an opinion is indeed deeply held. It may ultimately be that some limited quantity...