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...thing about the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos is this: you never get time to think. The crush of business leaders, politicians, scientists, thinkers and celebrity do-gooders is so great, the cornucopia of temptations on display so salivating, that you can't quite get your head - which is, in any event, likely to be fogged from the night before - around what you've heard or seen. (Did Brad Pitt really have jet-black hair and sideburns?) So on the last day of Davos I enjoy a little ritual. After lunch, I take myself...
...Upon taking over on Feb. 1, 2005, the King said he was assuming power to crush Nepal's Maoist rebellion, which has claimed 12,000 lives. Instead, his repressive policies over the past year have helped unite the Maoists with the mainstream opposition: the rebels declared a unilateral cease-fire last September and forged a loose alliance with Nepal's seven main political parties. The Maoists ended their cease-fire on Jan. 2; since then they have killed at least 25 government troops and police. The King's hard-line approach has international observers worried about his ability to maintain...
Directed by Laurence Dunmore The Weinstein Company 2 stars I, like many women of my age and demographic, have an all-consuming crush on Johnny Depp. I love his taut facial expressions, his manly shoulders, and his two illegitimate French children. Therefore, I was extremely disappointed when, half-0way through “The Libertine,” Depp gets syphilis and develops excruciating, puss-laden lesions all over his face. “The Libertine” may be a cinematic mess, syphilis or no syphilis, but it got significantly worse when I had to cower and yell...
...other schools boast these J-Terms, which allow their students to study independently or participate in numerous different activities in the time between terms. J-Terms offer significant benefits. Students can catch up on coursework or travel internationally during the J-Term, free for an entire month from the crush of schoolwork. We are skeptical about the prospects for a J-Term at Harvard, however. First, it would be difficult to get faculty members to shoulder the extra weight of teaching another course. Also, a J-Term would fill no gaps that currently exist among the opportunities that Harvard provides...
...Wednesday. Inversion is inversion, and this unwholesome circumstance has occurred before every recession in the last 40 years. The logic is simple. Bond traders push long-term yields unusually low when they feel that short-term rates are unusually high and will choke off business borrowing and crush the economy...