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...dollars on the margins, but they don't want to be seen selling dollars hand over fist," Englander says. Besides, with economies weak and interest rates at low levels throughout the industrialized world, there is a lack of better choices. "The dollar may not be attractive, but when you look at the alternatives, nothing is that exciting," says Englander...
There are no right answers with nerdity. There’s no 12-step program for recovery. No Public Service Announcements to warn you of the deleterious effects of mixing five-hour labs with poor personal hygiene. The only support network you have are other former nerds. You look at a relatively well-dressed, socially competent individual, and you share that split-second glimmer, wherein you both silently acknowledge each other’s nerded past, and then you quickly move...
...Harvard Centers across campus have sought similar initiatives to share staff. “All the centers are working to coordinate our activities and look for synergies where we could,” said Merilee S. Grindle, assistant director of David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...
...been temporarily exiled from Afghanistan for egregious acts of defiance against the government, returned in triumph to Kabul. His substantial support for Karzai during the election had earned Dostum a reprieve from judicial action and reinstatement to his former position as chief of staff to the army head. "Look at this government," laments Fahim Dashty, editor of the Kabul Weekly newspaper. "It is led by warlords and crooks. You can imagine what that means for our future." (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' offensive in Afghanistan...
Moreover, the ethnic group that inhabits this remote, mountainous part of the world, know as the Monpa, has always stood somewhat apart from the Tibetans of the plateau, despite sharing their religious and cultural outlook. In the days when political power was concentrated in Lhasa, Tibetans would look down upon the Monpa almost as if they were a tribe of southern barbarians. But after the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950, the group on the margins found itself at the center of a hot spot, faced with the task of aiding compatriots who were fleeing the brutal Chinese crackdown...