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With scattered Cs in the ninth and 10th grades and football and guitar as his only extracurriculars, Comeback Kid would normally have missed Bowdoin's first cut of applications. But in his essay he wrote of how he'd spent those first two years of high school "slowly poisoning myself in a pool of malted hops." Then a close relative who was an alcoholic died of a stroke. After that, Comeback Kid cut out the beer, got A-pluses in his senior year and won a national writing award. He also won a unanimous thumbs-up for admission...
Things quit working in December 1998, when the top management at Czech Savings (CS), the country's third biggest bank, said it would go broke in 14 days if the state didn't prop it up. The price tag: at least $100 million. The top bankers were fired, and the government decided to sell all its banks, and fast. The new strategy was too late to spare taxpayers more than $5.1 billion in losses for shoring up the banking sector over the past decade...
...With scattered Cs in the ninth and 10th grades and football and guitar as his only extracurriculars, Comeback Kid would normally have missed Bowdoin's first cut of applications. But in his essay he wrote of how he'd spent those first two years of high school: "slowly poisoning myself in a pool of malted hops." Then a close relative who was an alcoholic died of a stroke. After that, he cut out the beer, got A-pluses in his senior year and won a national writing award. He also won a unanimous thumbs-up for admission...
...column I present the first public Greenleaf Test. The following quotations have come from two different sources, one an unnamed presidential candidate (hint: I made the test as easy as I could without lowering the bar below the two party system), and the other a simple "babbler" computer program (CS-51 students might recognize this program as the Markov-based babbler of assignment 8). I allowed the program to use some general text from the congressional record so that it might "learn" the fine nuances of political rhetoric. And here, in no particular order, are the quotations (four quotes come...
...billion purchase of U.S. investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette by Credit Suisse Group bumps the Swiss bank up to the broker-dealer heavyweight division that includes industry leaders Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. It also keeps CS in step with its main Swiss rival, United Bank of Switzerland, who announced two months ago it was buying PaineWebber...