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...Kospi index fell 4.13%, while India's Sensex lost 7% of its value after plummeting in morning trading. China was not spared. The CSI 300 index, which tracks both the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges, was down 4.43%. Singapore's main index fell 7.72% amid economic news that the island state has slipped into recession for the first time since 2002. In a speech Friday, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong predicted a continued "rough ride" for Asia. "The world is caught up in a financial storm, and dark clouds fill the immediate horizon," Lee said to a meeting of Indian...
...story is semiautobiographical. Guo grew up in a small village on an island off south China's coast, and went to Beijing at around the same age as her character Fenfang. She churned out novels to support herself while in film school. In 2002, she left Beijing for London, where she continued her film studies and began writing A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, a humorous novel about her struggles with the English language and a British paramour. An expired visa forced her to return to Beijing, where she put the novel on hold and made Concrete Revolution...
...Fortunately for the Elis, sloppy football is okay when you’re playing Dartmouth. I won’t go as far to call the Big Green awful, because the last time I wrote that about a team Rhode Island destroyed Brown 37-13, but Dartmouth is a really not very good football team...
...longer know what to make of Brown. The Bears won a game they had no business winning against Harvard and confirmed their status as the trendy Ivy League pick in Week 2. Then they go ahead and get blown out by a 2-4 Rhode Island squad. If the Open Curriculum All-Stars would stop choosing when to win and lose the way they choose classes, maybe my job would be a little easier...
...both Ohio and Kentucky - and the Long Island Power Authority in New York, which also sold bonds that day - paid much more of a premium over Treasuries than they would have before the credit crunch began in the summer of 2007, says Matt Fabian, managing director at Municipal Market Advisors. Ohio, for instance, is paying almost 1 percentage point more in yield for 20-year bonds than it did a year ago. "Maybe this is the new normal," says Fabian...