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...everything from his questionable character and inadequate sexual skills to his extended family, whom she disliked. Walsh-Smith's videos, which were collectively viewed more than 4 million times, reflect more than just the despair of a jilted woman. They're part of a larger and fast-growing problem: reputation-wrecking online...
...Analysts were generally pleased with what executives at Morgan Stanley - and Goldman Sachs for that matter - had to say in recent conference calls. Glenn Schorr, a banking analyst at UBS, wrote that both firms have strong capital and liquidity positions, and they have reduced their exposure to problem assets and "priced remaining exposures at what we think are reasonable levels" and "don't have the same concentrations risk issues that the others...
What was "it"? In Infinite Jest Wallace wrote--in a passage that now reads like a lucid cell-phone call from the pilot of a crashing 747--that clinical depression is "lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... Everything is part of the problem, and there is no solution. It is a hell for one." What Wallace suffered was both agonizing and indescribable, even by him. And that last may have been what made it unbearable. Like Hamlet--who gave Infinite Jest its title--he had that within which passeth show. Even if he could have written...
...ever even crossed the mind of Harvard’s admissions office—and that is equally problematic. The point is that everyone—especially a powerhouse like Harvard—should be thinking outside the box about how he, she, or it can turn this problem on its head. This editorial doesn’t need to convince you that we should take this radical measure—only that even “ridiculous” ideas deserve a closer look. Nathaniel S. Rakich ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a Government concentrator...
...sake, but service as a way to strengthen people’s ties to their government. Rick Stengel, the managing editor of Time magazine, lamented in an article last year in Time that volunteer rates are higher than they have ever been. Why is this a problem? Because it accompanies record low confidence in democracy and the American government. His concern is that “[p]eople see volunteering not as a form of public service but as an antidote to it.” Stengel wants truly national service, run by a bureaucracy within the federal government...