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...David Schindler, a partner at Latham & Watkins who specializes in white collar and government investigations, says "human frailty" will always be a factor, and that would hold true even if tougher regulations and oversights had been in force over the past decade. "When you're a regulator and you get an allegation of wrongdoing [regarding] somebody who occupied the position in Nasdaq that Madoff did at that time, the human condition is such that it might be hard for somebody to start investigating or shooting at someone of his stature [knowing that] if they're wrong, their career and others...
...wired to repel close human contact - except, of course, when sex is a possibility. Which explains why so many introductions in bars go wrong. One party's amygdalae gets primed by proximity even as the other party's amygdalae submit to a more primal force: the need to procreate. (Past research has shown that the brain's limbic system, which includes the amygdalae, lights up in response to sexually arousing stimuli - not surprisingly, more vigorously in men than in women...
...that the curriculum’s development process has been “a long one—sometimes exciting and sometimes exasperating.” But University President Drew G. Faust tried to shore up hope for the future by tying Gen Ed to Harvard’s past. “I see this as a historic moment,” Faust said. “Now we find ourselves in 2009 with both continuity and change—with an affirmation of the principle that there should be special courses designed, in the words of [General Education...
Columbia administrators are probably rubbing their hands in anticipation of next year: because these rankings are based on 2008 data, the past year's financial trouble for many top schools (which, comparatively, Columbia escaped) will only be taken into account next year. Then again, it wouldn't surprise anyone to find a financially incompetent school on top again - US News has its ways...
...Over the past several years, student groups have been pushing for stricter policies to regulate industry ties at both the Medical School and at its affiliated hospitals. Tensions between the administration and a small group of vocal first-years mounted last year, intensifying when students took their campaign to the New York Times and publicly challenged the Medical School with mixed success...