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...ailing pillars of the U.S. financial system—would give the federal government authority to buy up to $700 billion of difficult-to-sell securities. The legislation gained key support over the weekend from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and is now expected to be passed Monday by both houses of Congress. The plan follows a slew of financial shocks in recent weeks, including the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and most recently, the failure of Washington Mutual and its subsequent seizure by federal regulators, the largest...
Early last Monday morning, I offered to help a student group I belong to with a round of postering in the Yard. I am, however, forced to admit that this was not an act of noble sentiments, a sudden blush of neighborly feeling that struck at dawn. I woke up to be an ethnographer...
...insurance as just one of several tools open to Paulson, but not mandate that he use it. "I do not see why the secretary cannot accept some of those (insurance and/or loan provisions) among the options he has to choose from," Pelosi said. Congressional officials believe they have until Monday morning to come up with a package. Congress is preparing to work into the weekend with the aim of passing something by the end of Sunday, or at least having the deal locked down and then holding a vote Wednesday after the Jewish Holidays...
...despite losing two key defensive players, Harvard still boasts a strong lineup in the back. Five blueliners are returning to the ice this season, including junior defenseman Alex Biega, who was named to the coaches’ and the media’s preseason all-league teams just last Monday.“We have a solid group of guys back there ready to take charge,” McCafferty said. “As a defensive core, we’re going to be as strong as we’ve ever been. We’re going...
...centuries and the edgiest avant-garde cinema is just an application of the same principle—at least according to P. Adams Sitney, considered by many to be America’s foremost scholar of avant-garde cinema. Sitney was at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last Monday to deliver an illustrated lecture about the philosophy behind American avant-garde film. If anyone knows experimental film, it’s Sitney. At 16, he founded “Filmwise,” a journal of avant-garde cinema. In 1970 he helped found Anthology Film Archives, a New York...