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...under a European Commission plan to be endorsed on Wednesday. Spain is similarly promising to slash its deficit of 11.4% to just 3% by 2013, although the country - which is still reeling from the recession, with unemployment of nearly 19% - has been vague about how it will do that beyond proposing $69 billion in cost-cutting measures over the next four years. Last month, French officials somehow managed to sound proud when they announced that France's 2009 deficit of 7.9% was lower than the expected 8.2% - and that they would hold it below 8.2% for the rest of this...
...habit isn't new, and it is clearly harder to kick than governments pretend. Observers note that the borrowing kick has already lifted French public debt to nearly 80% of GDP - a level that Germany is within shouting distance of, and which Italy, Belgium and Greece are well beyond. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...circular logic; these notes for what could have been remain genuinely tantalizing, especially in their flirtation with the idea of an “original” in a world in which people can be novelized, duplicated, or obliterated as desired. Yet his taste for parody trespasses well beyond tongue-in-cheek. Every character is either neurotic, socially oblivious, a raging nymphomaniac, or all three. Philip Wild is not only morbidly obese, but can be seen walking striped cats on leashes down the street. Flora is groped at age 12 by an older man named “Hubert...
Anyway, these three professors—who tweet about a range of topics related to their respective areas of expertise—have made the effort to leave the Ivory Tower and communicate with the world beyond the gates of Harvard. Here’s a little rundown of each of these Twitter accounts (along with a recent tweet...
...What U.S. officials don't like to acknowledge is that the Pentagon is hard at work developing an offensive cyber capability of its own. In fact, it has even begun using that capability to wage war. Beyond merely shutting down enemy systems, the U.S. military is crafting a witch's brew of stealth, manipulation and falsehoods designed to lure the enemy into believing he is in charge of his forces when in fact they have been secretly enlisted as allies of the U.S. military. And some in Washington fear that there hasn't been sufficient debate over the proper role...