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Guantánamo itself may well be closed in the near future, but of course this will be an empty gesture if we just create a "Gitmo North" at the Thomson prison facility in Illinois or anywhere else—or if we continue to buy into the idea that we can engage in indefinite detention without fair hearings...
...short film of the exhibition’s co-curator, Terah L. Maher, along with the sheets of clay sandwiched in Plexiglas that were used to make the movie. The students’ films track a wide range of graphic and conceptual complexity. A work by Lisa A. Haber-Thomson ’02 consists exclusively of stick figures, but deals with the beautiful image of a woman trying to stitch together a torn book as letters pour out of it to the sound of running water. “Pop,” a film by Sarah...
...make that deadline, and the fact that nearly half of Guantánamo's remaining 200 detainees are from Yemen could delay the shutdown even longer. His plan relies on shipping most of those detainees back to their home countries, with a smaller number headed to a prison in Thomson...
...such signal: stocks are about as expensive as they have been in the long term, even though the economy remains weak. According to data from Thomson Reuters, the companies in the S&P 500 index are trading at an average 15 times expected earnings over the next 12 months. That's a completely typical valuation. But this isn't a completely typical business environment. If the recovery is slow, and unemployment remains high - and both seem likely - then even a typical valuation will seem too optimistic...
Stock-market analysts, who are usually wildly bullish on far-off earnings projections, seem to have the same tentative take on the post-stimulus economy. According to Thomson Reuters, analysts believe that on average, companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 will earn 22% more in 2011 than they will next year. That's a larger-than-average jump for corporate profits. But it will be down from the 25% jump analysts are expecting for 2010, when the stimulus money will still be pumping into the economy. And it is far below other rebounds. In 2003, for instance, corporate profits...