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...pattern continues, things could get complicated for central bankers around the world, and for U.S. central-bank chairman Ben Bernanke in particular. Beset by a slowing economy amid the subprime loan meltdown, Bernanke is trying to ease interest rates without triggering higher inflation. Additional inflationary pressure from one of America's largest trading partners will undermine his ability to reduce rates further to prevent the U.S. economy from stalling. He's not likely to get much help from Beijing, which has its own priorities and a limited set of tools to rein in consumer prices. Efforts to cool economic growth...
...potential conflict of interest during the investigation left him little choice but to resign as the combined company's first chairman. (He remains CEO of Hydro's aluminum and power businesses, which were not part of the merger.) "It's been an eventful week," Reiten, 54, told TIME amid the icy rain in Nyhamna. "Both for good...
...bend and perhaps break. Andrew joined the crowds, marveling at the courage and candor of the protesters. "After years of sneaking around this country," he says, "talking in whispers, always aware of the trouble I might cause the Burmese who dared speak to me, it was extraordinary to stand amid these euphoric crowds, openly conducting interviews...
...Student Organization Center at Hilles to spread awareness about the situation there. About 50 people attended the event Tuesday night, which followed last Friday’s demonstration in Harvard Square. The first speaker, Daw Aye Aye San, was an activist in Myanmar, formerly Burma, in 1988 amid a wave of student protests. She said that after being arrested, she was tortured for six days before being sent to prison. She said that one military officer told her, “You are like water in my hand...nobody can come and help you. Nobody can protect you and live...
...office, representatives of Alabama's Republican attorney general and an attorney from the Justice Department's public-integrity unit in Washington. But in an unusual exercise of prosecutorial discretion, nearly all the payments and donations went uninvestigated. And when Siegelman's defense team, which had obtained Young's statements amid tens of thousands of documents provided in discovery, raised his accusations briefly in court, a judge quickly ruled them irrelevant...