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Most E-mailed news on 7 September 2009 |
Back to Business: Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance
Jan Buckler and Kathleen Tillwitz of DBRS, which is reviewing proposals for life- insurance securitizations.Wall Street bankers plan to buy life insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for cash and package hundreds or thousands of them together into bonds.
How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
The Great Recession was the result not only of lax regulation in Washington and reckless risk-taking on Wall Street but also of faulty theorizing in academia.
Op-Ed Contributors: College Advice, From People Who Have Been There Awhile
Educators give some helpful advice to young adults entering school this fall.
Turning to Tie-Ins, Lego Thinks Beyond the Brick
Lego has rebuilt itself, but its new Hollywood-themed products are a far cry from the purely imagination-oriented play that drove the company for years.
Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools
Budget-battered school districts must try to salvage education for more than one million children whose lives are filled with insecurity and turmoil.
Keeping That New PC Clean and Pure
A new PC comes innocent of viruses, worms, spyware and other troublesome programs. Here are some tips for keeping it that way.
Tick-Borne Illnesses Have Nantucket Considering Some Deer-Based Solutions
A committee on the island is looking at options including trimming brush in backyards and installing feeders that coat deer with insecticide. Most controversial is whether to allow more deer hunting.
Op-Ed Columnist: From Baby-Sitting to Adoption
After eight years of work in Afghanistan, we still do not have a reliable Afghan partner to hand off to. It?s time to discuss if nation building is still worth doing and at what cost.
The Self-Storage Self
What is it about Americans that makes us store elsewhere all that stuff we accumulate?
Winslow Homer?s Maine
Prouts Neck?s rugged coast and uncompromising sea inspired the artist?s best-known works. Today, his memory shapes the secluded and private enclave.
Op-Ed Contributor: What Torture Never Told Us
The newly released C.I.A. memos confirm that harsh interrogation was pointless at best.
Op-Ed Columnist: The Afghanistan Abyss
Sending more American troops into ethnic Pashtun areas in the Afghan south may only galvanize local people to back the Taliban.
Op-Ed Contributor: The Hunt for a Good Teacher
Do everything you can to take a writing course and to get a seat in the class with a professor known for his or her knowledge of the material.
Op-Ed Contributor: An Argument Worth Having
To be a successful college student, cut through the clutter of jargon, methods and ideological differences and locate the common practices of argument and analysis hidden behind it all.
Bringing ?Where the Wild Things Are? to the Screen
Spike Jonze is known for making videos and movies his way ? fast, cheap and dirty ? but adapting a classic book turned out to be slow, expensive and very complicated.
Op-Ed Contributor: Off-Campus Life
Read a good newspaper, it will be your path to the world at large.
Op-Ed Contributor: Get Lost. In Books.
Read the authors who are difficult and demand rereading because that effort doubles their value.
A Dream Interrupted at Boeing
Boeing says it is getting back on track on the 787 Dreamliner, which is two years late. The company says it outsourced too much.
Design: Typography Fans Say Ikea Should Stick to Furniture
The company provoked outrage among designers when it replaced its version of the famed font Futura with the computer-screen font Verdana in its 2010 catalog.
Hello, Sweet Prince
Maybe he is just a good actor, but Jude Law appears convincingly cool and unfazed as he prepares to bring his ?Hamlet? to Broadway.
Editorial: President Obama?s Health Choices
Mr. Obama must stand tough for a comprehensive plan that would benefit both the uninsured and most other Americans as well.
Op-Ed Contributor: Don?t Alienate Your Professor
Make sure you are in the right class, for starters.
Op-Ed Contributor: Play Politics
Have passion for what you are learning.
Video Games | The Beatles: Rock Band: All Together Now: Play the Game, Mom
The Beatles: Rock Band reinterprets an essential symbol of one generation in the medium and technology of another.
Your Money: Why College Costs Rise, Even in a Recession
If you have paid college tuition recently, you probably have questions. Where does all that money go? And why doesn?t the price tag ever fall?
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