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...euro has soared against the dollar over the past three years - it's up more than 40% since 2002 - European leaders have been trafficking in gloom and doom. Politicians gripe about the damage to their national economies. France's new Finance Minister, Hervé Gaymard, last month called the dollar's decline "very worrying" and said Washington needed to fix the problem. And German trade groups sound more like self-help gurus when they talk - as they frequently do - about the currency crossing "a pain threshold." But despite all the whining, the strong euro has been a considerable boon...
...this festive season, I have to say I'm not sure rerecording the song is a big help. Band Aid has been criticized before for its cheesy tune, and Do They Know It's Christmas? may not be the right question asked of Muslims in Sudan. But my gripe is about the way the song reinforces the popular impression that all Africans are starving as they wait for heroic Westerners to come and save them. In 1984 Do They Know It's Christmas? did a lot of good for the people of Ethiopia, and for that it should be praised...
...like to blame this lapse on the flu, but I can’t entirely. The truth is, the prospect of missing my final night was, even for this ambivalent Crimson editor, really really sad. Because much as I gripe about the Crimson, Harvard, and capitalist America in general, FM has been the perfect subculture within all those categories for me—a family, a place to be creative and useful, and lots...
...churlish and meanspirited in this festive season, I'm not sure re-recording the song is a big help. Band Aid has been criticized before for its cheesy tune, and Do They Know It's Christmas? may not be the right question asked of Muslims in Sudan. But my gripe is about the way the song reinforces the popular impression that all Africans are starving as they wait for heroic Westerners to come and save them. In 1984, Do They Know It's Christmas? did a lot of good for the people of Ethiopia, and for that it should...
...become slaves to that strange public opinion barometer known as the focus group. About a dozen supposedly representative citizens from supposedly representative places sit around a table and tell a pollster what they don’t like about the presidential candidates. And topping that list is always a gripe about “negativity.” To which the other average voters in the room will respond with nods and statements like “I want the candidates to talk about the important issues and not about why the other...