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...blip on our radar.” Despite this mishap, the Marshal elections are running smoothly. Sixty-one students are competing for 16 spots in the first round of elections, which closes tomorrow at midnight. The top 16 then enter the second round of elections, which will ultimately yield eight Class Marshals, who will be responsible for organizing events for seniors during Commencement and subsequent alumni gatherings. Potential Marshals said they were excited about the chance to remain involved with the Class of 2009 after graduation. Lumumba B. Seegars ’09, a potential Marshal from Dunster House, said...
Banks also learned lessons from the 1997-98 financial crisis, which was partly caused by weak risk management. Lenders haphazardly tossed money at conglomerates for questionable industrial projects and property investments, and they chased high-yield, high-risk investments around the globe. But they paid the price in bank and finance company failures. In August 1997 Thailand closed 42 finance companies, Indonesia closed 16 banks two months later, and South Korea closed 14 merchant banks in December 1997, according to Merrill Lynch. Others were sold or merged. Those that survived cleaned up their act. Credit analysts are more thoroughly trained...
...technology, we would only have to touch our hips, gently, to that magical spot in order to secure a smooth entry. We soon learned, however, that it requires a good deal of awkward fumbling to find the sweet spot that turns on the reader and causes the door to yield. Worse yet, to do it with our wallet still in our pants requires a great deal of pelvic thrusting, prolonging the moment when, finally, our impatient rubbing provokes that high-pitched shriek of welcome entrance. More frustrating still is the ease with which our fellow schools have introduced such measures...
...what should you do now? Nothing, right? Okay, maybe there are a few small things. For starters, look at the yield on your money market fund and compare it to the sector. Naturally, you want the highest return on your money. Except that maybe you don't. Higher yields usually mean riskier investments - more commercial paper, say, as opposed to Treasuries. Last Friday, before the Lehman implosion, Reserve Primary Fund was the second highest-yielding fund of the 100 largest tracked by Crane Data. For months before that, it was in the No. 1 slot. "You want to act like...
...registered a heightened response to threat on the conductivity test tended to support the death penalty and military spending. People with a mellower startle response were more likely to support abortion rights and gun control. The study also looked at several broader political tendencies, including compromise (the willingness to yield to a middle-ground solution) and obedience (the tendency to follow a set path), and found that people who were more sensitive to threat were less amenable to the former and more inclined toward the latter...