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We are requested to state that the absence of the Vice-Chancellor and members of the Council of the Senate of the University of Cambridge from the funeral of the late Mr. Darwin was occasioned by the circumstance that it was impossible for them to attend in consequence of the approaching election to the Regius Professorship [...]

We live in a world where I feel out of place. The one that I knew, that I loved, had 1.5 billion inhabitants. The world today is made up of six billion humans. It is no longer mine”

Via Grasping Reality with Both Hands
W.H. Auden: 70 Years Ago Today

September 1, 1939

I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the [...]

The 2009 GAAP modifications generally would increase the amount of exposures recognized on banking organizations’ balance sheets.

No, kidding, Sherlock.

Teddy Kennedy, as he was then known, had little beyond his name to recommend him when he ran for his brother’s Senate seat at the minimum age set by the Constitution, 30.
When he left office, 47 years later by death, his legislative influence on a half century was monumental. It takes time to make [...]