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...Some of his proposals seem far to the left of his peers - like setting up a sort of sovereign wealth fund that would use the income from natural resources to fund basic services - but others are refreshingly pragmatic, like a suggestion to measure poverty not by income but by access to water, food, medicine, education and legal rights. "Poverty is the absence of these five things," he says, and indeed there are many whose rising incomes don't reflect the true state of their lives...
...Beijing has what it used to call "core interests" - issues that stand above and beyond the rest. Taiwan is one. Another - a recent product of its economic surge - is long-term access to the oil, gas and minerals needed to fuel the country's growth for decades to come. Iran, from whom Beijing now buys a tick over 400,000 barrels a day (about 14% of China's total oil imports), is clearly part of that future. But U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently called out Beijing in public to get off the fence and sign...
...haven’t thought about this enough—there are so many questions here,” said Harry T. Rimalower ’10, an Adams House representative. “It really does skirt academic integrity. Yes, lots of people have access to these study guides, but that doesn’t make it right...
Until recently, SWIFT had its data servers on U.S. soil, giving American authorities the jurisdiction they needed to access them. But at the end last year, the servers covering European wire transfers were moved to Switzerland and the Netherlands, forcing the U.S. to seek European consent to continue sifting through SWIFT's database of some 8,000 banks. The U.S. says the information, which includes customer names, account numbers and amounts transferred, is needed to root out the various terrorist organizations that move funds around the world. In 2003, officials say the program helped Thai authorities capture Riduan Isamuddin, also...
...efforts to tackle terrorist financing have become embroiled in an argument between E.U. institutions." European and U.S. officials will almost certainly need to craft a different kind of pact now. While Washington could cut individual deals with the banking centers of Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland to gain access to their data, officials say a better tactic may be to try an assuage European Parliament concerns over data-protection standards and put the proposal before the body for another vote...