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...goes without saying that, in times like these, the issue of executive compensation is indeed a touchy one. Early this year, the world was shocked to learn that many of Wall Street??s besieged “masters of the universe” had still pocketed vast sums of money in bonuses and salaries—despite the sharp economic downturn that some believe was caused largely by their decisions. Following suit, a group of 10 members of the College’s Class of 1969 have called for drastically lower pay for top executives at the Harvard...
...Cronin, a former Crimson president. “I can assure the City Council, truly, that the last thing in the world David Halberstam would have wanted is to have a street named after him.” Glenn said a renaming of Plympton St. would detract from the street??s sentimental value to generations of Crimson editors and also lead to material costs and difficulties, and Bhayani questioned the idea of honoring only one particular individual. When the proposal was first presented last spring, Dan J. Wuensche, the manager of Plympton landmark Grolier Poetry Book Shop, said...
...course suffered large losses because of the current financial crisis. The most recent estimates put the damage at around $8 billion dollars, while the New York Times has warned that substantially more might be lost from harder-to-assess investments, some of which have not been revalued since Wall Street??s crash. Such a bleak financial picture has caused talk of tightened budgets, not spending sprees...
...Bringing up Wall Street??s role in the current financial crisis may seem dated. The two and a half months since Lehman Brothers collapsed have been rather eventful—a presidential election, A.I.G.’s bailout, Citigroup’s bailout, a 2,000 point decrease in the Dow, Iceland becoming insolvent, a requested bailout for the Big Three automakers, and as of Monday a bona fide, American-made recession. Because of all of this, it’s easy to forget what started this debacle—the subprime mortgage fiasco. If you?...
...coverage of the torture porn phenomenon ignores the fact that senseless violence has been franchising itself for decades—2003’s “Freddy v. Jason,” for instance, was simultaneously the eighth installment of “Nightmare on Elm Street?? and the 11th of “Friday the 13th...