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The bank plan is supposed to be getting under way right about now, with private players lining up to tap government lending facilities to buy so-called toxic assets from banks, thereby cleaning up the banks' balance sheets and facilitating lending across the country. But the banks, convinced the market...
When the Class of 2009 arrived on campus, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch were still solvent.But between freshmen move-in and the Office of Career Services Career Forum at the end of September of their senior year, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America and Lehman Brothers collapsed.And as...
When she was first appointed Dean in March 2008, Hammonds said in an interview with The Harvard University Gazette that she was cognizant of “many challenges facing the College.” But in multiple interviews with The Crimson over the last month, the Dean?...
This American ideal is in crisis as never before, the challenge of re-establishing its luster has never been greater. Leaders like Johnson and Nixon may have besmirched it but they never argued outright that law should be subservient to executive power. The Bush administration, with Cheney as its architect...
When the two objectives fall easily in line, the job is a smooth one. But when one side has to make tough choices at the expense of the other, things unfold a little less clearly. In the midst of an unprecedented financial crisis, when job cuts at the University seem...