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...Congress passes a bailout, that could be just the beginning of what looks to be a long and painful economic unwinding for Asia. That's because exports to the U.S. are crucial for economic growth in many Asian countries. A bailout "does not address the decimation of the wealth effect of the U.S. consumer," says Kirby Daley, senior strategist at Newedge Group, a financial services firm based in Hong Kong. Nor can a bailout replace all the liquidity that has evaporated from global financial markets, which made it cheaper for companies to borrow money to build new factories...
...game in its history. 0-25. They were un-victorioused…or whatever that word would be. So it starts out great. Good drive, get a field goal, we’re up 3-0, no worries. Thirty-one unanswered points for Duke later, and UVA effectively reaches its lowest point in program history. We lost 31-3. 31-3!!! To a team that hadn’t won an ACC game in its program history. To a team that hadn’t won an ACC game in its program history!!! (Did you see that? That...
...response, students on nearly all PASSHE campuses have organized daily "smoke-in" protests since the ban went into effect on Sept. 11, and they've collected hundreds of signatures on petitions against the anti-smoking measures. They've found support from faculty and even from nonsmokers. "This law, [the Clean Indoor Air Act], very explicitly defines its terms," Kutztown University geography professor Steven Schnell, a nonsmoker, told Cavanaugh during a campus visit last week. "I suggest a grammar class for your legal counsel...
...real problem in many colleges where some students choose to smoke and some students don’t want any part of it,” Brownsberger said. “The students who don’t want any part of it will be exposed involuntarily to the effect of second-hand smoke.” —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...course, Obama has another, equally arbitrary and more dismaying variable about which to worry: the so-called Bradley effect. The thinking is that white voters might consciously or unconsciously conceal latent racial biases from pollsters, but be swayed by those biases in the booth. These days I’d like to think Obama is Kennedy to McCain’s Nixon, the handsome and clever candidate of the future. But there’s no guarantee he won’t be Jesse Jackson to McCain’s Michael Dukakis...