Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit told a Congressional panel that the bank is “fundamentally different” since it took $45 billion in taxpayer bailout money last year. But Law Professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law, says Congress should be asking why taxpayers were’t given more effective oversight of Citigroup after […]
March 4, 2010 at 11:29 am
Nutrition graduate student Larry Istrail recently launched an innovative new iPhone Application called PhotoCalorie allowing users to snap photos of their snacks and meals, enter a short description, and track their calorie intakes. The App, which is currently offered to Apple customers free of charge, also allows users to keep a visual food journal which […]
The Boston University Alumni Association is hosting The Changing Face of Autism in America today at 5:30 PM in the Backcourt Room of the George Sherman Union. The event will include cocktails and an interactive discussion with five panelists including School of Education Professor and Moderator Tom Cottle. The panelists will explore how research, diagnosis and […]
President Obama reportedly has high cholesterol… Michele says it’s from too many burgers. How about a bean burrito instead? Here’s why: Beauty and the Beans.
The Obama administration is considering proposals to ban all foreclosures on home loans unless they first have been examined for possible modification. Professor Jack Aber, chairman of the Department of Finance and Economics in the School of Management, says it could be palatable to lenders if the government eases accounting rules having to do with the […]
U.S. defense and counerterrorism officials say al-Qaida’s terror network is growing in both strength and numbers in North Africa, threatening to destablize the Sahara region. International relations Prof. Charles Stith, a former U.S. ambassador to Tanzania who direct’s BU’s African Presidential Archives and Research Center, says it’s in America’s interest to help development in Africa. “Africa is […]
The White House reportedly is rethinking the nation’s nuclear weapons strategy to aim at permanently reducing the U.S. arsenal while rejecting swear-no-first-use proposals. Attorney Philip O’Neill, author of “Verification in an Age of Insecurity” and who teaches national security law at BU Law, says this nuclear review should be the time and place for a […]
Google says Microsoft is waging a proxy war by hijacking lawsuits brought by third parties to crank up antitrust sentiment against it so that regulators clamp down on Google’s growth. Law Professor Keith Hylton says legal weapons have become competitive tools among big technology firms. “I don’t think there are any angels left in the high-tech sector […]
February 26, 2010 at 5:11 pm
With President Obama’s ballyhooed healthcare “summit” with Republicans over, political science Professors Graham Wilson and Douglas Kriner offered their takes on what it all means (or doesn’t). WILSON: “The session showed that there are differences that can’t be bridged. But in purely political terms, neither the President not the Democrats can afford to be seen to […]
February 26, 2010 at 4:09 pm
The Obama administration plans to use government buying power to prod private companies to improve benefits and wages for millions of workers. School of Management economics Professor David Weil, an authority on labor-market policy, says there’s a long history of assuring that companies contracting with Uncle Sam adhere to workplace, environmental, and consumer protection laws. […]
