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There's an odd game going on in Europe. As European governments dip into their coffers and borrow madly in an attempt to repair their economies, the European Union is cheering and jeering at the same time. The cheers are for the economic-stimulus packages; the jeers come because all that spending is blowing budgets by margins that E.U. rules expressly forbid...
...threaten countries now? Simon Tilford, chief economist at the London-based Centre for European Reform, says any attempt to stick with the pact through the global economic crisis could unleash a political crisis. "Against a backdrop of recession or economic stagnation, painful spending cuts would be extremely difficult for any government to sell to voters," he says, questioning whether such reductions would even succeed. "Drastic cuts in spending or [raising] tax risks deepening the recession, which would in itself prevent an improvement in the fiscal position...
Carroll took charge for the remainder of the period, getting his right pad on an attempt from point-blank range...
President Barack Obama often induces comparison to Abraham Lincoln. However, his recent announcement of a budget schedule that slices the deficit by one-half aligns him with a less celebrated commander-in-chief: Herbert Hoover. Hoover, the man whose infamous attempt to balance the budget in the face of skyrocketing unemployment and a deepening recession pushed the American economy over the edge into the Great Depression, is hardly a good example for our new president. Obama’s plans will not necessarily launch our economy into a depression. He is attempting to slash the deficit, not eliminate...
...court for Harvard (10-13, 2-7 Ivy). Lin passed halfcourt and dished the ball to senior guard Drew Housman on the left side of the court. Housman—the game’s leading scorer with 16 points—pulled up for the game-tying attempt several feet behind the arc, but his shot was too strong and bounced off the far side of the rim.“I told Drew it was a great shot,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “I told him it was tremendous job by Jeremy...