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...then there are some hook-ups that even the slickest sleuths should avoid at all costs. “Dormcest” is always a bad idea. If things go sour, your 4 a.m. vending machine visits will always be wrought with the fear of bumping into your ex-lover buying Diet Coke for a new honey, or using the basement dryers for something other than drying clothes. Plus, dorms are mini-Harvards—word gets around pretty fast, and nobody wants to be the year’s “Holworthy Ho?...
...Another situation to avoid entirely is hooking up with the roommates of past flings. Although Harvard hotties tend to travel, and thus live, in packs, it is best to choose one and stick with him or her. A drunken trip to the bathroom might result in the return to a familiar, but wrong, bed. And of course, don’t hook up with your own roommate either—that should be self-explanatory...
...this, however, will not be enough to blow out the deal, because the consequences of a collapse in the so-called shadow banking system would be much worse. Over the last 20 years Wall Street built what amounted to a parallel finance system that was specifically designed to avoid the banking safeguards implemented after the crash of 1929, which limited how much an institution could be leveraged in exchange for stability. The shadow system grew nearly to the size of the real banking system, and its demise now threatens both. "As much as I don't want to be here...
Health officials are struggling to educate women who have had an abortion about avoiding additional unwanted pregnancies. "People in the family planning and abortion community are trying to deal with this head on," Jones says. "We have an obligation to women who are experiencing multiple unintended pregnancies to do what we can to help them avoid subsequent unintended pregnancies...
...eternal return. The bailout package sent to Congress envisages the purchase of toxic mortgage-related assets from banks by a government agency directly dependent on the Treasury. It has a direct precedent in the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), an institution created during the Savings and Loans crisis to avoid dumping real estate assets after bank failures, and thus to avoid a further decline in real estate prices through the usage of federal funds. The current proposal is explicit about its monumental cost: $700 billion, a sum larger than the 2009 budget of Medicare and Medicaid, which also dwarfs...