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...decision to create $250 billion in new SDRs marks a "major step" toward establishing the SDR as a global reserve currency, says Stiglitz. It's only a step, albeit enough of one to prompt Republican Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota to make the claim that Obama was out to ditch the dollar. Actually, the dollar would live on in an SDR-dominated world. It would no longer reign supreme, but neither would the yen or the euro or the yuan. Which might be the best long-run outcome the U.S. can hope...
...attempt to deplane, McDonald allegedly yanked open the aircraft's emergency exit door while the plane was on the tarmac. The crew says it stopped him from opening the door fully and deploying the emergency chute, but, in the end, McDonald got his wish. He got off the plane - albeit with a police escort. He now faces up to a year in prison if convicted of reckless endangerment and criminal tampering...
...YORK—Coming into the Harvard baseball team’s doubleheader with Columbia (4-16, 2-0 Ivy) on Saturday, the Crimson (2-16, 0-2) found itself sharing the diamond with a kindred spirit, albeit for all the wrong reasons.Each team arrived at the onset of the Ivy League season reeling from an extensive and difficult non-conference slate, and equipped with only two wins to its name and the sliver of hope that materializes when there is reason for optimism that the worst is over.But while the Lions took the beginning of Ancient Eight play...
...playful soundtrack including Vampire Weekend and The Flaming Lips. Though “I Love You, Man” tests the foundations on which male companionship stands, it does so without losing itself in unnecessarily heavy social commentary, instead managing to maintain a sense of humor—albeit a sophomoric one—throughout...
...Storm’s 35-point win over Dartmouth—albeit in November—can give the Crimson one idea of how tonight’s matchup might go. But the Crimson’s own strong non-conference play, which included wins over U.C. Santa Barbara (an NCAA Tournament team) and Central Connecticut State and Vermont (both NIT teams), has the team believing that it can make a game of it in Queens...