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Change is long overdue. "Who can possibly justify the fact that Belgium has a substantially larger quota than India, Brazil or Mexico?" asks Ariel Buira, of the Mexican Council for International Affairs. The IMF's legions of critics even include other international agencies. Malcolm Knight, a former general manager of the Bank for International Settlements - a sort of club for central bankers - recently blasted the IMF in an article that described its performance as "less than evenhanded or effective," and accused it of being asleep at the wheel in the months before the current economic turmoil. "The IMF was uncharacteristically...
...Kindle Me Delighted If Josh Quittner were elderly with macular degeneration, he would be as thrilled as my Kindle-loving 76-year-old husband [March 30]. The print can be made larger. It is so light, he can hold it. If his eyes get tired, a soothing voice can read to him. Whiny kids in their 40s and 50s can complain, but for us, the Kindle is priceless. Barbara Plungy, Denver...
...While students perform such political theater to gain an audience, their initiatives routinely flop. In 2007, SLAM held a hunger strike to promote higher wages for Harvard’s security guards. Consequently, campus debate shifted from whether the security guards deserved larger salaries to whether the strike was justified. After some strikers were hospitalized, the security guards asked SLAM to cease its protest...
...This latest campaign is part of a larger trend among campus activists: Since they can’t enact the change they desire, they might as well show that they are good, moral people. Many student activists are sincere in their efforts and accept that they’re promoting lost causes. But, besides being futile, this approach can harm the very causes that students support...
...experience will be present" when Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded, to prevent severe mental or physical harm. However, the IG investigation found that the waterboarding technique used on the CIA's detainees was significantly different from that used in the SERE program: most notably, the Agency's interrogators used much larger volumes of water...