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...questions about the effectiveness of U.K. banking regulation. Then came a damaging political storm over the taxing of "non-doms"--wealthy foreigners who move to Britain and are taxed on their U.K. income only. Following last month's rescues of HBOS and Bradford & Bingley, the big question is, What sort of new regulatory measures will be put in place as a result of the current market meltdown...
...Although he often admitted he was uncomfortable about appearing so publicly mean, Blackwell also said he was compelled to poke fun at celebrity style because fashion designers were not doing their job: they failed to make women look beautiful. While his original intention was to act as a sort of fashion watchdog, Blackwell and his list became a dreaded Hollywood institution that paved the way for other red-carpet critics. The annual issuing of the list, on the second Tuesday in January, became its own kind of fashion moment...
...partly be attributed to the revelation in the report that “a minority of [committee] members considers it probable that plants are sentient.” Plants, for those of you who have forgotten, have no brains and no neurons. If they feel pain or experience some sort of consciousness, it is through a mechanism completely unknown to science. Yet the majority of the committee ruled that sentience is “morally relevant” because we cannot rule out the possibility of sentience. This is an utter bastardization of the skepticism that forms the foundation...
...said task force member Harry Mattison, who has been critical of Harvard’s plans in the past. “Every time you talked about your plans and said ‘Oh, maybe there will be some community there too,’ it is sort of an afterthought...
...He’s extremely friendly with us. I sort of see him like an uncle figure,” says Christopher T. Lim ’10, a pianist...