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...mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the largest government bailout to date—an $85 billion loan to the American Insurance Group, Inc., a global insurance company whose near-collapse some feared would send the financial system into a tailspin. The headline-grabbing failures follow a year-long financial decline, caused by unexpectedly high rates of home loan defaults that tore through the economy and wiped out billions in capital. The downturn accelerated in recent months as lenders spooked by steep losses and high-profile bank failures have tightened their purse strings. Worried that recent high-profile...
...incomes below $20,000 had an average score of 456. A commission of prominent college admissions figures—headed by Harvard’s own dean of admissions and financial aid, William R. Fitzsimmons ’67—has finally challenged the status quo with a year-long study that came to a not-so-startling conclusion: The SAT is not the best gauge of college-readiness.Steve Syverson, commission member and vice president for enrollment at Lawrence University, already made standardized tests optional at his institution several years ago. He was quoted in The New York Times concerning...
...appropriation order comes after what has been a year-long conflict since Stonehouse Holdings, owner of the 10,500-square-foot open space, announced its plans last year to build on it a large single-family residence...
...Over the last decade, rising sea levels have caused severe problems for Kiribati, including increasing high tides, harsher wave action, and coral breaching. Coupled with the scarce resources, a recent year-long drought, and exorbitant fuel and food prices that have crippled an already unstable economy, the newest crises promise to make the atolls uninhabitable in the near future...
Korn’s appointment, which ends a year-long search, will replace a short-lived position with a narrower portfolio: the vice provost for research policy, which was vacated by astronomy professor John P. Huchra...