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By Shaun Akhtar and John Alzate | January 6, 2009

Dartmouth Trustee Diana Taylor '77, chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion, was named as one of nine new directors of the troubled mortgage giant Fannie Mae, according to a Dec.

Dartmouth MALS students Scott Miller and Wynne Washburn presented their ongoing study about cultural tolerance in the Collis Center on Monday.
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Graduate students discuss cultural tolerance in open forum

By John Alzate | January 6, 2009

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Cultural tolerance is often most prevalent in societies that have a diverse array of ethnicities and religions, according to two Dartmouth graduate students who presented their ongoing ethnographic study in Collis Center on Monday. Scott Miller and Wynne Washburn, who are enrolled in the Master of Arts of Liberal Studies program at the College, have spent four months every year for the past four years traveling to different locations to work on their project.

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Alum calls for teacher merit pay

January 6, 2009

Educational inequity is the result of an outdated education system that pays teachers based on seniority rather than merit, Delano Brissett '05, a Teach for America alumnus, told students gathered in Cutter-Shabaz Hall on Monday night for a speech and discussion about education.

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Geithner '83 criticized for Fed bailout choices

January 6, 2009

Courtesy of the Associated Press President-elect Barack Obama's nomination of Timothy Geithner '83 for Treasury secretary was initially met with a stock market rally and media acclaim, but in recent weeks, confidence in Geithner's abilities has diminished as political analysts have criticized his reaction to the ongoing economic downturn. Many critics have taken issue with Geithner's response to the financial crisis as the president of the New York Federal Reserve. "Geithner's experience at the New York Fed, which initially was viewed as a plus, is now looking less favorable," Dartmouth government professor Linda Fowler said. Some of the criticism is driven by a belief that the New York Fed is overly focused on the stock market in determining monetary policy, rather than on long-term consequences, Fowler said. Fiscal conservatives -- such as John Berlau, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a non-profit, public policy organization that promotes limited government -- have widely criticized Geithner's response to the bank failures and questioned his expertise. "Geithner's career rise has consisted largely of falling upwards after organizing bailouts, even if the bailouts fail or prove to be unnecessary," Berlau wrote in a December editorial on the Institute's web site. The discontent is not limited to conservatives: Many mainstream and liberal publications have also questioned Geithner's actions during the fall bank failures. "Timothy Geithner, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Treasury secretary, has some explaining to do," The New York Times wrote in a Dec.

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Alumni interests hurt by Madoff

By Emma Fidel | January 6, 2009

The organizations of two prominent Dartmouth alumni are facing multi-million dollar losses as a result of their financial ties to Bernard Madoff, whose alleged $50 billion investment fraud shook the foundations of financial firms and non-profits worldwide upon its discovery in December. Spring Mountain Capital, founded by John "Launny" Steffens '63, lost about $39 million in the scandal, while the Robert I.

Romantic scenes between the Drover (Hugh Jackman) and Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) lighten up Kidman's stiff performance in
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Epic "Australia" fails to impress

January 5, 2009

Courtesy of MovieWeb.com Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow" earned its place in musical canon as a result of the songstress' overflowing charm.

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A Helping Hand

By Jacob Batchelor | January 5, 2009

Two a.m. a few nights ago found me watching "Planet Earth" and trying to figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life.

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Test Everything

By Peter Blair | January 5, 2009

Over winter break I saw a commercial about polar bears. You know the kind I'm talking about. The commercial opens with some picture of a polar bear floating away on a block of ice, and then cuts to some authority figure -- usually a C-list actor whom you know you've seen somewhere -- telling you in a very serious voice about the grave threat that climate change poses for the polar bear population. Deeply moved by this commercial, I decided to look up some facts about polar bears. According to Danish academic Bjorn Lomborg, 11 out of the 13 polar bear populations in Canada are stable or increasing in number, and more polar bears are killed every year by hunting (49) than by climate change (15). Two years ago, in a case concerning literature about global warming, a British High Court judge ruled that there is not any evidence for the notion of the drowning polar bear.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Goodell | January 5, 2009

A new plan currently before state education officials would allow New Hampshire high school students to start college at age 16, according to U.S.

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College offers retirement incentive plan

By Turia Lahlou | January 5, 2009

The College announced a new retirement incentive plan for staff members on Dec. 11 -- a move that represents the College's latest attempt to address its budget shortfall in the wake of the ongoing financial crisis.

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