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...paid the price in bank and finance company failures. In August 1997 Thailand closed 42 finance companies, Indonesia closed 16 banks two months later, and South Korea closed 14 merchant banks in December 1997, according to Merrill Lynch. Others were sold or merged. Those that survived cleaned up their act. Credit analysts are more thoroughly trained and better technology systems allow managers to more carefully assess the risk in their portfolios. As a result, Asia's financial institutions are much more conservative than in the past...
...have passed 1,000 lbs by now. (You can keep track of the trash that Chameides is not throwing out on his blog.) When the year is up, Chameides says he'll probably have to send his collected waste to the landfill and the recycling center, but the simple act of keeping his garbage has reduced it. "It turned out that it's not that hard," he says. "I'm a pretty normal guy - I just keep my garbage in my basement...
...good thing. Perhaps Harvard’s obsession with being a pacesetter ought to be left at the door in this arena. Being original is nice, but if other colleges learned that tailgating and watching sports is fun, why can’t Harvard play copycat? The act of watching sports together is nothing short of a religious rite at other schools. Come Monday, conversation-starved students can re-hash the game over their cereal in the dining hall and bond with their housemates over the events of the Friday before. Why was the night game was so much...
...rifts" within the party caused by the bruising power struggle between Mbeki and Zuma, that was finally resolved in Zuma's favor last December. Later in the day, Mbeki's office issued a statement saying that the President would "step down after all constitutional requirements have been met," an act of capitulation that could avert political crisis ahead of a general election that is set to take place next year...
Barnstorming through battleground states together, John McCain and Sarah Palin have developed a buddy act that brings an energy and focus not present when McCain campaigns alone. Before he added Palin to a ticket encumbered with the now-unpopular Republican brand, McCain's events were sparsely attended and sometimes listless. That has all changed...