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...Following his time on The Crimson, Clymer has perhaps been known best for his reporting on U.S. politics. But international journalism has continued to attract him, and some of his most memorable experiences have taken place abroad...
...Fink received an unprecedented three top awards (Palme d'Or, Best Director and, for John Turturro, Best Actor) but grossed only $6 million stateside; last year, the Coens' No Country for Old Men got no prize at Cannes, then earned nearly $75 million on domestic screens (plus $86 million abroad), and won the brothers three Oscars, including for Best Picture. Such Academy-nominated hits as L.A. Confidential and Eastwood's Mystic River also got snubbed on the Côte d'Azur; and Brokeback Mountain was actually rejected for the festival competition. So, for ambitious American movies, getting canned...
Edda Rós Karlsdóttir, a senior director at Landsbanki, says Iceland's peculiar macroeconomic conditions pose the biggest challenge to maintaining investor confidence. With so few potential depositors at home, the nation's banks have little choice but to raise capital abroad. Furthermore, the size of Iceland's economy - the U.S. economy is roughly a thousand times larger - has always made it volatile, partially explaining its much-discussed $2.7 billion current-account deficit. "If my father decides to build a garage onto his house, it will almost show up in national accounts," she quips. So imagine...
...similar fate. But in 1999, the 14-year-old, in disguise, clambered out of a monastery window and was spirited on foot and by horseback and helicopter to India, becoming the Tibetan diaspora's teen hero in the process. A nervous Indian government refused to let him travel abroad for eight years...
...peaking at $758 billion, or 5.7% of gross domestic product (GDP), in 2006. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing has been endlessly debated, with no clear resolution. But it does seem to be an unsustainable thing. The U.S. finances its deficit with money borrowed from abroad. At some point, those foreign lenders will want to be paid back. While there are several ways to go about this--inflating our way out of our debts among them--the most palatable would be to produce more goods and services that foreigners want...