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...Germany needs structural reforms," Volker Treier, the chief economist of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce told TIME. "We need a more flexible labor market, reforms of the social security system and urgent reforms of corporate tax." If Merkel decides to push through reforms, it's bound to put her on a collision course with opposition parties, like the Social Democrats and the ex-communist Left Party, and Germany's powerful trade unions. "There's a wall of political opposition and Germans aren't keen on reform," says Treier...
...France, President Nicolas Sarkozy is looking to add to the country's debt though a huge government-bond issue next year. Such divergences are already causing alarm. Unless exit strategies also address the long-term sustainability of public finance and other challenges, Stark says, "the current crisis is bound to be exacerbated by a sovereign debt crisis...
...living. And I do that, Chase. At someone’s command, and I prefer to believe it is yours, my friend, I go on living,” she closes one letter.The third person narrative structure of the book is also one of its strengths. Being bound by the stupidity of Chase, the invested reader will chomp at the bit for more and more information, but Lethem holds fast to his kernels of truth until their revelation is all the more satisfying. Every detail of the book gains retrospective significance as the puzzle pieces slowly sort themselves into place...
...Bryant is not the first to “make it,” but one of many. What Harvard sports fans have not seen recently in their NFL-bound peers’ careers is longevity. In 2007, Crimson running back Clifton Dawson ’07, the Ivy League’s all-time leading rusher, entered the NFL with the Indianapolis Colts. Dawson—now a free agent—had 64 carries in his two active years in the NFL, and escorted the football across the sacred goal line and into the Promised Land one glorious...
...Harvard Book Store might be just the place for you. Beginning this Friday, customers can use the store’s new “Espresso Book Machine” to select a book from millions of titles now in the public domain that will be printed and bound right on the spot, presumably akin to the way that a coffee machine instantly fills a cup of coffee. Needless to say, the new machine, which works in conjunction with Google Books, is a fantastic innovation as useful as it is unbelievable...