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...frantic to find solutions to stanch the flow of job losses and to help the unemployed. The virtual collapse of Japan's export-driven economy, in which exports have nearly halved compared to the first two months of last year, has forced manufacturers to cut production. Temporary and contract workers at automotive and electronics companies have been hit especially hard. Hamamatsu has 18,000 Brazilian residents, about 5% of the total in Japan, and is home to the nation's largest Brazilian community. After immigration laws relaxed in 1990, making it easier for foreigners to live and work in Japan...
...fiction and fiction writers have a moral responsibility to their readers. “The fact that fiction is not real is not the point: the reader responds as it if is real,” he said. He characterized serial fiction in particular as a type of contract between writer and reader in which the reader agrees to keep reading as long as the writer produces satisfying work. McCall Smith said that he accepts this obligation. “It considerably constricts my freedom of action, but in a way that I don’t regret...
...Harvard University Employees Credit Union will allow eligible Harvard graduate students to borrow a maximum of $250,000 for their education without a co-signer—a safety net required by many lenders. Discussions with HUECU have been ongoing for the past six weeks, and the recently completed contract will take effect on April 23 for the next three years. The arrangement—which marks the first time that HUECU will be offering student loans—follows a similar deal penned in February with JPMorgan Chase and will increase the funding options available to international students. After...
...insider life to the HarperCollins editor at that party. According to Kaplan, the editor was encouraging and she secured a meeting to pitch her book in the form of a 20-page preview. The day after her meeting, she said, she got a call: HarperCollins wanted her book. Contract secured, Kaplan spent the next two years working on her novel, working closely with her editor throughout the process to develop the book. At the same time, though, Kaplan was also juggling the hectic high school career of the usual Harvard student on top of writing...
...newspapers only when the news from there is bad. Pessimists could add to the drug wars the parlous state of the Mexican economy - dragged down, as it is, by its close ties to that of the U.S. Alfredo Coutino of the Dismal Scientist projected this week that Mexico could contract by 4% to 5% this year, maybe more, which would put its recession in the same bottom tier as other hard-hit economies such as the U.K. and Japan, and rival that seen during Mexico's "tequila crisis" in 1995. (Read a brief history...