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With the financial crisis forcing global leaders to rethink the basic framework of the world's financial system, it's probably not the best of times for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be mired in internal scandal. Yet even as French President Nicolas Sarkozy got the backing of U.S. President George W. Bush Saturday to organize a summit to reform the international financial rules that the IMF oversees, the world discovered that the organization's French managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is being investigated for possible abuses of power. The findings of that inquiry - expected later this week - will...
...just want to thank her for providing the framework for what I do,” said Lee, a Law School graduate who left private practice several years ago to work in the admissions office promoting racial diversity...
...there are at least 60 undergraduates, a trend that Kenen and Kuriyama hope will continue. “It’s a really great example of a cross disciplinary class,” said Kenen. “It doesn’t fit neatly into one disciplinary framework and thus it’s the kind of thing that might not have worked well in the Core.” She said that the General Education program has been criticized for recycling Core classes, but that classes like Kuriyama’s are “hidden gems...
...Vice President was the candidate who got the second most votes. And because of the advent of political parties, that turned out to be a very bad idea. But in the current environment, I thought this may be one of the few times in American history where the original framework actually was right. Maybe we would benefit from having both of these guys in the White House at the same time...
...only a beginning. European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, for example, stressed the collective package "isn't of an immediate miracle", and many more trials and jittery nerves would have to be overcome before the nightmare of the past months would be over. Still, the mere framework of a strategy proved sufficient to calm the fear that that drove last week's panic-driven sell...