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...South Korean businessmen, bankers and housewives, who fear the consequences of an impending global recession. With the country heavily reliant on exports, South Korea, like the rest of Asia, cannot escape the fallout from a U.S. downturn. Goldman Sachs predicts GDP growth will sink to 3.9% in 2009, the lowest since...
...gave Harvard its first Ivy League title since 1999. Northeastern (13-8-1, 6-5 CAA) had an improbable road to the NCAA Championships. After finishing sixth in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) regular season standings, the Huskies made a run in the league tournament. Although Northeastern was the lowest seed in its conference tournament, the squad won three straight do-or-die games including a 1-0 double overtime victory overHofstra in the title game.It is the first time that the Huskies have made the NCAA tournament. The Crimson’s appearance is its 11th in history...
Still, Ireland remains an attractive place to do business. It's blessed with a growing labor force of young workers, and it measures up well, too, in terms of taxes: its corporate tax rate of 12.5% is one of the E.U.'s lowest, while levies on labor and capital stack up well against rivals. That's one reason the world's second biggest advertising firm, WPP, announced in September that it plans to shift its headquarters from the U.K. to Ireland; and why pharmaceutical company Shire and publishers United Business Media both announced similar plans earlier this year. The arrival...
...votes in our rapid-fire, media-spun era of talking-points demagoguery. Adlai Stevenson, the last presidential candidate who sincerely tried to talk sense to the American people, suffered two defeats following Kinsley's advice, and the 1950s' American electorate was smarter than those immersed in today's lowest-common-denominator, Joe the Plumber world of sham politics. Our only hope is that the better candidate, Obama, can cajole people into assuring his victory and then, in office, administer the proper economic medicine. The heavy dosage needed, however, can not be fully prescribed during the campaign. C.W. Griffin, Phoenix, Ariz...
...Omar and Zaina have set their sights further to the south, and few experts can figure out why. "It's not as though Spain is an especially easy country in which to gain asylum," says Alfredo Abad, director of the Spanish Refugee Aid Commission. "We have some of the lowest acceptance rates in Europe." In fact, only 570 of the 7,664 who sought asylum in 2007 were granted, a drop in acceptance, says Abad, of 58% compared to the previous year...