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...departure of Lawrence D. Bobo, the Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and of African and African American Studies and his wife Marcyliena Morgan, an untenured associate professor of African and African American Studies, hits a department still recovering from the 2002 loss of Cornel R. West ’74 and K. Anthony Appiah to Princeton following West’s very public spat with Summers...
...Bobo and Morgan announced to the Af-Am and sociology departments via e-mail last Friday that they have accepted tenured job offers from Stanford University and will leave Cambridge for the Golden State upon completion of the Fall semester...
...both Latham and the Prime Minister, who is shooting for his fourth straight election victory, demurred on that issue, saying it wasn't the time for political jousting. But even when issues closer to home, like interest rates and Medicare, reassert themselves in coming days, says pollster Gary Morgan, the Jakarta embassy attack will reverberate through the electorate more loudly even than the Bali massacre: "Bali was an attack on a tourist center; this was an attack on Australia. Australians are going to be more concerned about terrorism than ever before." Whether voters decide this bombing, the first such attack...
...That's a familiar nightmare for other manufacturers across the region, from toymakers to electronics companies. Andy Xie, Morgan Stanley's chief economist for Asia, says the region's industrial stalwarts face such competitive markets that they often can't pass along price increases to customers. "They are at the bottom of the global trading system and are the most vulnerable to a price squeeze," he says. Although corporate profits this year have been relatively strong across Asia, Xie expects this to change in coming quarters, with corporate earnings likely to decline next year...
...economists in Asia are keeping one eye fixed on oil prices, the other on China. Second-quarter GDP numbers showed the economy is still growing at a blistering 9.6% per year. But Morgan Stanley's Xie warns that "China can't grow at this speed when oil prices are this high." China's annual oil bill is running at $89 billion, or 5.3% of GDP, twice as high as the global average, says Xie, who worries that if oil prices remain above $30 per barrel, growth rates will inevitably be hit. "They have to slow down," Xie says. "There...