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...month that, at least anecdotally, has seen a high rate of criminal activity. A Harvard University Police Department alert issued yesterday provided descriptions of both crimes and of the second intruder. Information about the first crime was not distributed—to Quincy residents or to the wider community—until five days after it occurred. The alert also warned residents to close their windows when leaving their rooms and not to hold doors open for strangers, a message emphasized over e-mail by Resident Dean Judith F. Chapman and House Master Lee Gehrke. Both strongly discouraged...
...than people here may have suspected," says Jacques Mistral, head of economic research for the French Institute on International Relations in Paris. "France has been doing a pretty good job getting with the global program after all. But this crisis is a reminder that French financial institutions - and the wider French economy - are exposed to external forces, including those in a U.S. system we often criticize as reckless...
...decades, any episode of turbulence in the U.S. stock market or speculative finance sector was bound to provoke scorn across France's political spectrum. Detractors disparaged the U.S. economic model for rewarding short-sighted greed with indecent executive compensation, for its myopic focus on share price rather than wider-view company performance, and for its recurrent bubbles and busts. "People ironically asked when American markets would stop believing in free lunches," recalls Mistral...
...have to enrich the models, make them more complete, more complex, and bring in some of the richness that the real world can throw at us." Indeed, on Sept. 16, at the request of students, Wharton faculty held a "teach-in" to examine the current financial crisis in the wider context of risk management, among other topics...
...self-proclaimed “power-user,” was not happy by the change. “I logged into my Facebook, and it looked terrible. It looked like a tundra,” he said of the new interface, which is significantly wider and bluer. In the early stages of its launch, Facebook users were able to opt in and out of the new layout. The switch became mandatory and permanent last week.Chief among Bethel’s many complaints was the amount of work he suddenly had to do in order to navigate the Web site...