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...works full-time in public relations and performs stand-up comedy part-time, created the site about a month ago. In an e-mail to TIME, Spags wrote that the point of Maybe You Shouldn't Buy That is to "take a look at our excesses as a society rather than just go, 'Hey, silly pictures.'" But this is a recession, and everyone's hoping to capitalize in one way or another. Spags admits that he would like to use the site as a springboard for a possible book deal, but feels that "any revenue I'd make...
...finish school until the following week. While Chin said she thought closing the school was “a smart thing to do,” not all students agreed. Chaofan Yuan, also a senior, said he found it annoying. “I’d rather that they not cancel school,” he said. “I’m not that panicked about the disease.” —Staff writer Sofia E. Groopman can be reached at segroopm@fas.harvard.edu...
...Weatherl’s emphasis that DADT is the product of a congressional act rather than a ROTC-specific decision is useful in informing the misinformed. But wielding that fact as evidence of Harvard’s “intellectual inconsistency” unfairly ignores the logic behind Harvard’s position and suggests that it must stem from antagonism against ROTC and its members...
...discriminatory DADT policy. As such, pending changes to federal law, Harvard cannot officially recognize ROTC because the program enforces a policy irreconcilable with Harvard’s nondiscrimination policy. The university’s position in no way rests on a claim about who is responsible for the policy. Rather, it is the direct consequence of the reality that the “current federal policy of excluding known lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals from admission to ROTC or of discharging them from service is inconsistent with Harvard’s values as stated in its policy on discrimination...
...what we'll call a "beta trade" in banks - these are the lower-quality banks that have been beaten up the worst, the ones people have more fundamental questions about, whether they will be broken up or will fail. Everything is rallying at the moment, but we would much rather be in the former group, the long-term plays in leadership banks. I'm talking about such companies as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Visa, US Bancorp and Wells Fargo...