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...downshifting from a growth rate of 3.5% to about 2%, but few had predicted a recession. Greenspan's warning was particularly chilling because the truth is, the health of the massive U.S. economy - not the performance of Chinese stocks - is the single most critical variable that global equity investors confront...
Byron Hurt, the director of the documentary “Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” urged a capacity crowd in the Science Center’s Lecture Hall D last night to confront the sexism, homophobia and “hyperaggression” that he said features prominently in today’s commercial hip-hop music. In the past year, Hurt’s film on hip-hop has made a tour of the film festival circuit and garnered national media attention. “This film is about hip-hop, but also about manhood, the construction...
...government viable. It's a failing of many of our well-intentioned leaders to think they have the power to change a natural order, as the British and French believed when they ventured to remap the Middle East after World War I, leaving behind a host of problems that confront us today. Harry Friedman Milton Keynes, England...
...Pulitzer winner weighed in on everything from Adolf Hitler’s genitalia and Hillary Clinton’s buttocks to the Iraq War and George W. Bush. Throughout the event, he never shied away from controversial claims and even went so far as literally asking the audience to confront him. GENITALS AND FOREIGN POLICY Sitting in an overstuffed chair, wearing a black fleece vest with a purple sport shirt underneath, Mailer could have been, on first glance, someone’s little old grandpa. But as soon as he began to speak, the notion of an innocent grandpa quickly...
...insurgency in the country could never be appeased. Moreover he foresees a need for fresh commitments by Britain and other powers as terrorism and tyranny afflict populations in Africa and the Middle East. "Blair will be gone in three months' time," he said. But his successor "will have to confront very similar problems in different parts of the world...