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...Dingman said that the FDO has been working to cut programs and costs that will not directly affect students. The FDO has already cut 5 percent of its costs this year, reducing the number publications it prints and sending out letters to parents online rather than by mail. To meet the College’s mandatory 15 percent cut on all office budgets, the FDO also plans to make cuts to internal office staff appreciation programs, equipment upgrades, published materials, and travel and professional development programs. The office is also looking at cutting part-time staffing, overtime pay, and summer...
...crisis has so far led to unprecedented international cooperation. Three weeks from now, the G-20 will meet to brainstorm some solutions to the recession. There, the powers must decide how to balance the market and the state intervention in many different cases. They will undoubtedly recognize that “economic nationalism” has always been under the surface of globalization, implement the good aspects of state intervention and protection, and steer clear of the others...
...form as great a threat to economic growth as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff - in effect a huge tax increase on consumers - did in the 1930s. Obama needs to slow down, recognize how much the world has changed and work across party lines to develop a totally new budget to meet this new reality...
...controlled by paramilitaries. Sinead Kelly, 18, waits for her partner outside a betting shop on Falls Road, a working-class republican stronghold. "It's frightening around here at night," she says. "I can't even walk down the street with my baby; I'm that scared, in case I meet people with drugs." Her startling conclusion: "I would rather have lived in those days when it was the Troubles." Too young to remember firsthand the horrors inflicted in the name of a reunited Ireland - or of preserving the Union - she knows the paramilitaries used to mete out summary justice...
...Will Japan get on its bike and pedal off to meet the future with confidence? There are many - and not just in Japan - who would dearly love to know the answer...