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...value of its holdings, due to the growing U.S. budget deficit that is expected to swell to more than $1.75 trillion in 2009, the country's largest debt load as a percentage of GDP since World War II. "This is the tip of the iceberg," warns Joseph Tan, the chief Asia economist for private banking at Credit Suisse. "It doesn't look promising for the dollar." (Read "How China Is Capitalizing on the Economic Crisis...
...Chief among them are Shan's parents, Mrs. Gu, devastated by her loss, and Teacher Gu, bewildered by the nature and personality of the child he has fathered and retreating further into the arid haven of his intellect in order to cope with her demise. But there are less obvious people the death marks: Kai, a public announcer on a government radio station that spews out continuous propaganda; Kai's husband Han, a man on the make in the provincial government, who harbors dreams of greater influence; and Nini, a deformed girl, eldest of six daughters, who is nothing more...
...called Ford a “pioneer in her own right, a leader who embodied the ideals she espoused.” Ford received the Charles Hamilton Houston Award for life-long leadership and service to the betterment of the African American community. She was the first African-American Chief United States Magistrate Judge and served the District for Massachusetts for nearly thirty years. Sterling was presented with the Horizon Award for creativity in using his law degree to pursue an acting career. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he was handpicked by Denzel Washington to appear in his film...
...merits of this new system, we feel that the reduction of the Q Guide to only numerical evaluations and one full-text response will be detrimental to the informed choice of courses by students,” said a statement released by former Q Guide editors in chief Lindsey R. Canant ’09, Ginger E.R. Tanton ’09, and Russell I. Krupen ’07 and Lloyd, a former assistant editor in chief. According to Tanton, the administration has been proposing to alter the format of the Q Guide for years, but she and other...
...speak with the historic sweep of the California court, perhaps because the justices there know Iowa's court is less often seen as a harbinger of legal trends than California's. And in one important aspect the decision stopped short of following California's lead. In California, Chief Justice Ronald George declared that from now on, any laws that discriminate against gays in California are presumptively unconstitutional and will be subject to "strict-scrutiny" analysis by the courts - a burden that is reserved in every other state for cases involving discrimination against religion or immutable characteristics such as race...