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...Harvard community want to handle this situation with as much respect and sensitivity as possible. Nevertheless, the central facts of this issue cannot be ignored. For reasons of fairness and practicality, the UC’s plan is misguided and should be rejected. Like other colleges that offered to accept displaced New Orleans college students, Harvard has a duty to Tulane to not allow its visiting students to tranfser permanently to Harvard. It is a necessary measure to ensure that Tulane can recover as quickly as possible. Were every college to renege, the consequences could be disastrous for the Tulane...
...Asia, for its part, must accept greater responsibility for its economic destiny. Time and again, currency fluctuations have proved to be one of the biggest detriments to the region's export-led growth. The only way out is for Asia to become less dependent upon exports, by pressing on with measures to boost internal private consumption. Currency manipulation?whether it's by the Japanese, the Chinese, or other quasi-pegged Asian economies?is no panacea for unbalanced growth...
...times, that near tragedy makes it a little easier for the family to accept the mundane, daily struggles of restarting their life. Natrena can still laugh about how often she gets lost trying to find her way around her new hometown, and Nathaniel likes to gripe about how no one in Houston seems to play dominoes or go fishing. It helps that Carmelita, Nathaniel and Jennifer have moved into a fully furnished and--thanks to a city housing voucher--temporarily rent-free apartment and have qualified for emergency food stamps; Natrena and her two boys have done the same. Nathaniel...
...political and economic stability, and use of new technologies. Efforts to blame U.S. cotton farmers for West Africa's woes "are misleading and misrepresent the forces at work in world fiber markets," says National Cotton Council (NCC) vice chairman Allen Helms Jr. The NCC says it is prepared to accept subsidy cuts only if other sectors also take a hit?and if the WTO examines support for man-made fibers. "We will oppose any agreement that singles out cotton for unfair, special treatment," Helms told a Senate committee...
...question is whether Lamy manages to persuade the delegates to keep the momentum going or, better still, accelerate it. And the clearest sign that he's succeeding will be if all the ministers pile out of their meetings complaining about the half-loaf they've just agreed to accept...