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PIMCO is headed by Mohammed El-Arian, a former director of HMC, whose short-lived tenure managing Harvard’s endowment saw stellar returns during the boom years...
...Belgium, however, the burqa bill has the cautious support of much of the Muslim community. "Nobody likes somebody covered," says Saïd El Khadraoui, a Belgian Socialist member of the European Parliament. "It is wrong to say the burqa is part of Islam - the vast majority of Muslims do not wear it. And it's not a bad idea to give a signal that we need some rules to live together." His sentiments are echoed by Emir Kir, who was born in Belgium to Turkish Muslim parents and is now the Secretary for Public Sanitation and Monument Conservation...
...financiers and low-income Londoners is profound. "The bankers look down from their gleaming towers in the City, and they see a depressed and depressing East End," says Dominic Carman, the parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Democrat Party in Barking. "From the East End, the City looks like an El Dorado of gleaming spires and towers. It might as well be 10,000 miles away because it's so unreachable, so unfathomable...
Fool's Gold That distant El Dorado may have enriched only some Britons, but the turbulence shaking it is felt by everyone. There's little agreement among politicians or economists about quite how much of a basket case Britain has become. "Although the economy is now growing, recovery is still in its early stages and remains very fragile," Brown said in a March 10 speech in the City. Labour says the recovery is due to the government's lead in global efforts to stabilize the banking system and its $30 billion of fiscal stimulus and argues that stimulus spending must...
Adriá’s work is a prime example of the intersection between science and cooking, Weitz said. His restaurant El Bulli is only open six months a year; he spends the other six researching culinary science in a lab in Barcelona. Weitz added that El Bulli is so popular that reservation applications are only accepted one day a year and it is more difficult to make a reservation at El Bulli than to get into Harvard...