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...flood their economies with money. China announced a big stimulus package nearly two weeks ago, and in Beijing last weekend, government policymakers acknowledged that more is probably coming. In the U.S., another economic-stimulus plan seems inevitable; the Federal Reserve, meanwhile, is probably headed toward what in 1990s Japan became known as the ZIRP: zero-interest-rate policy. The Fed funds rate is already down to 1%, and the economy is still sinking. Rates have nowhere to go but down - all the way to zero. And by the time President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January, it's likely...
...These iconic roles are rekindling the passion for politics that the French lost in the 1990s and early 2000s, when ideology waned," says Perrineau. "Now larger-than-life personalities and clashing styles have fanned those political passions again - Sarkozy being the best example of that, but one now also creating anti-Sarkozy icons. The problem for the party is, it now has two anti-Sarkozy icons battling for the party leadership as anti-icons of each other. And the passions that it is creating will have to be reckoned with for a long time...
...Losing Control Sitting at the crossroads of three continents, Greece has a long history of immigration (and emigration, for that matter). In the 1990s Greece was the destination for thousands escaping fighting in the former Yugoslavia. But what's happening now is bigger and more complicated...
...said Lauren A. Onofrey ’12, who received one of the calls. “He sounded legitimately very sad.” The description of the calls earlier this week echo those of a series of anonymous phone calls to undergraduates dating back to the late 1990s. In 2007, a caller who also identified himself as “Michael” made late-night calls to Harvard dorms, most of them to upperclassmen dorms. “Michael” called multiple rooms in Hollis, apparently calling consecutive dorm phone numbers. Onofrey said other Hollis students...
...reverence for him has inhibited many of them from speaking out in any way that might challenge his authority. "This is the problem with having God as your leader," says Tsering Shakya, a professor of modern Tibetan history at the University of British Columbia. A referendum in the early 1990s on whether to give the Dalai Lama a mandate to follow his "Middle Path," seeking autonomy within China, resulted in such overwhelming support that some Tibetans doubted that it was a true expression of democracy. "People were upset by that," says Robbie Barnett, a professor of Tibetan studies at Columbia...