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...Nowhere is the urgency to deal with debt greater than in Europe, where it has become the most serious test of the 11-year-old euro-based monetary system. While euro-zone nations use the same currency, there is no mechanism in place to financially aid wayward members. That's how a crisis in Greece, which represents a mere 2.8% of the zone's GDP, can have such an outsized impact. The ultimate fear is that Greece will default, dragging down the euro with it. "A lot of the euro's problems today are rooted in those members having failed...
...Ayro, who was hit by a missile in May 2008, and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, the mastermind of the 2002 attack in Kenya, who was killed by U.S. helicopter gunships last September. The U.S. has had no military support from other nations, although some have made contributions to help deal with Somalia's long humanitarian crisis. Only piracy and the threat it poses to world trade have resulted in concerted international muscle. An armada of warships from more than 20 countries now hunts pirates and escorts convoys of merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean...
...asked my grandparents where their parents were from, they'd all launch into the same speech about how Poland and Russia switched borders a lot. The only thing I got from that speech was that people do not want to admit they're Polish. Also, that making a big deal about your genealogy isn't for Jews; it's for Wasps and Southerners and Democrats and other groups whose past is brighter than their future...
...follow the rules in terms of patronage and genuflecting in the right direction. He had a point of view that probably didn't always fit in. But I don't think he spent a lot of time trying to impress the right people. I think he cared a great deal about his work and was incredibly reliable in that regard...
...interesting to note that the same body that formulates the country’s Five Year Plans, the Planning Commission was set up an expert committee in 2006 on “Development Issues to deal with the causes of Discontent, Unrest and Extremism.” Its detailed report from 2008 highlighted the endemic inequalities in Indian society and the acute deprivation in the areas affected by Maoism...