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...aftermath of World War II. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, for example, prohibits "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. "The Geneva Conventions states: "Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited...
...challenge facing the banks is summed up in an arcane and inelegant word: securitization. The term describes a sophisticated method of using powerful computers to package traditional loans into securities. The new instruments are then bought and sold like conventional bonds in the credit marketplace. Securitization is double edged: in only a few years, the technique has given an enormous boon to consumers in the form of lower interest rates and fresh infusions of money for mortgages and car loans. Banks have also gained from securitization, observes Lowell Bryan, a director at the McKinsey consulting firm. They have, he says...
...Harvard has] a tendency to force people to put the ethical theory aside and I think they've straightjacketed their people by forcing them to work exclusively in the case-study method," says Donaldson. "To do business ethics without doing serious ethical theory is to do it at an elementary level, and is a half-hearted and inadequate approach...
Along with that title, Harvard's own "Rhythm Method" took home $5000 in cash, a $5000 gift to Harvard, and a contract with Nola Recording Studio in New York...
...Rhythm Method, which appears regularly at clubs in Boston like Jack's and the Channel, were rated one of the top ten bands in Boston earlier this year by Beat Magazine, Axelrod said. In addition, one of their original tunes, Modern Life, climbed to number five on the WFNX-FM Radio Beat Chart, he said...