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...foresees more good years to come, at least until 2010. Globalization is acting precisely as predicted - as an engine of growth that accelerates investment by leveling borders and speeds up consumption by driving down prices. These competitive pressures also bear down on costs, and so money remains cheap while (core) inflation is safely confined. If U.S. growth has slowed a bit, Japan and Euroland are no longer a drag on the global economy. More significant is the uptick in confidence. Last year, those morose Europeans called off their consumption strike, and so consumer spending is up by around 2%. That...
This being examination period, the imminence of second semester seems hard to believe. But even as students sit in Lamont cubicles, surrounded by Core readings that had been assigned in September, the first day of shopping period looms just over two weeks away. Courses need to be selected, and academic plans need to be formed. Faculty members can assist students with this process by doing something that’s both remarkably easy and enormously helpful: posting the syllabi of spring semester courses online during reading period. Students can shop only so many courses during shopping period, and the rapid...
...This is such a core piece of democratic faith, that when you disagree with a law you work to change it, or - in the tradition of civil disobedience - you break it and suffer the consequences. So you can respect the city commissioner who didn't feel he could even implicitly endorse a gay marriage ban and would rather resign than pretend. But what happens if you let officials take office with an asterisk in their oath? That would "come perilously close to saying [that] in their duties they will ignore the law or alter the law when it conflicts with...
...confident that eventually a larger audience of women will find its way to Lights before May, when the network announces whether the show makes it to season two. Already in its new Wednesday slot, the show delivered its highest ratings since the pilot. Good news for the passionate core of believers at NBC who are trying to keep the series from going the way of dozens of less praiseworthy shows. "It takes enough people shouting that this is a wonderful show," says former NBC Entertainment President Warren Littlefield, who is now producing under his own banner. Maybe in Burbank...
...raid came three weeks after several thousand Ethiopian troops, tacitly backed by the U.S., invaded the country to oust the Islamist forces that had seized control of Mogadishu six months earlier. Outgunned by the superior Ethiopian army, the Islamists deserted en masse, with a core group attempting to retreat into the thick forests near the Kenyan border. The Islamists' flight left them exposed, which may have helped the U.S. track their whereabouts and move in for the kill. Approval for the raid came from Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, which had held power for all of 11 days...