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...January upon joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), Hanoi this month is lifting restrictions on multinational banks operating in the country that prevented them from competing on an equal footing with domestic lenders. Previously, foreign banks were limited in their ability to acquire depositors and were allowed only one branch per city, among other constraints. But to get into the WTO, Hanoi promised to open its financial-services sector to the world faster than almost any other member. (China, which joined the WTO in 2001, had five years to open its banking market.) Already, eight foreign banks have applied...
...human welfare.” A letter to President-elect Drew G. Faust calling for “a more socially conscious technology transfer policy” at Harvard was also available for students to sign. Connie E. Chen ’08, a member of the Harvard branch of UAEM, explained in an interview afterward that while the connection between university licensing policies and drug affordability has not been widely discussed within the global health community, she was “astounded” by the eager responses from students, researchers, and even political leaders on the issue. Kim?...
...reviewing documents requested by Democrats for their investigations, it discovered that as many as 50 of its staffers may have violated the Presidential Records Act. The staffers, the White House said, were using e-mail accounts, laptops and BlackBerries provided by the Republican National Committee for official executive branch communications rather than the exclusively political work for which they were intended. Because the RNC had a policy until 2004 of erasing all e-mails on its servers after 30 days, including those by White House staffers, and because some of those staffers may have deleted e-mails on their...
...serious legal and security issues," adding that, "The White House has an obligation to disclose all the information it has." Already, tension has built over this last question; the White House believes that even RNC-retained e-mails, if they were between two White House staffers, are privileged executive branch documents that should not be turned over to the Hill, while Democrats insist any document at the RNC is subject to a Congressional subpoena...
...search we do,” he said. “But some of the positions were kind of strained.” He said the key to fostering diversity within coaching staffs is doing the same among athletes themselves. “We’re trying to branch out and increase the pool of people who play the sports,” Scalise said. The event was held before the Athletics Department announced it was naming Amaker. Scalise, who chaired the committee charged with selecting the new coach, said his department was “on the verge...