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...Cuba, as a guest of the U.S. military. How did Khan, a homeopathic doctor whose family says he never picked up a gun, find himself 6,000 miles from home locked inside a razor-wired stockade? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has described Guantanamo's prisoners as "the hard-core, well-trained terrorists." But according to his family and friends, Khan was nothing more than a fool in love, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...quality of their loans more rigorously and boost the percentage of total capital they must keep on hand to safeguard against potential delinquencies. Second, the plan seeks to tighten capital accounting rules: banks today are booking the expected income from deferred tax assets as up to 40% of their core capital, but Takenaka wants to force them to lower that amount to 10%. Either of these measures would force many banks into violation of their mandated 8% capital adequacy ratios. This would allow the government to seize control, dispose of bad loans and restructure as it sees fit?a terrifying...
...referred to the review when answering questions about the Core, quality of instruction by teaching fellows, the possibility of instituting a transition period for first-year students to become accustomed to Harvard’s grading and a greater focus on the sciences within undergraduate education...
Although Kirby said nothing has been finalized and that the Core will be examined in the curricular review, he expressed a preference for maintaining a core curriculum...
...believe there should be a foundational or core element to Harvard undergraduate education,” Kirby said, noting that Harvard students chose not to matriculate Brown, which has no core requirements...