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...with many officials saying that tougher fiscal oversight might have prevented the collapse of Greece's public finances. "We cannot have a pick-and-mix strategy, allowing everyone to do the easy parts and leave the real challenges to one side," Barroso told the European Parliament last week. "We need strong and true coordination in the economic field." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...Minister José Luis Zapatero even called for countries to face "corrective measures" if they under-perform economically, although that idea was quickly shot down by Germany, Britain and the Netherlands. Herman Van Rompuy, the new E.U. President, put forth a more nuanced proposal last month, saying E.U. leaders need to collectively take on a role of economic governance when they meet at summits. "The financial and economic crisis obliges us to take steps on this road," he said...
...combination of individuals and better laws? Right. I think on one level we can do it individually by eating in season, going to farmers markets, buying local, buying organic, reading labels, buying less processed [foods]. But as Michael Pollan says, we need to create a fair and balanced playing field where the carrots are as cheap as the chips. I would say we have an élitist system where we're encouraging poor people to eat food that's just unacceptable by unfairly pricing...
...breakfast in both the Quad and on the River every day would help ameliorate the problem of nutritionally deficient diets suggested by the preliminary report. Students most affected by the reduction in selection—such as athletes, those with special dietary restrictions, and early risers in need of a brain boost—would enjoy an immediate increase in wellbeing...
...Chang-Rae Lee’s “The Surrendered,” such a plight of insatiable need afflicts Hector Brennan and June Singer, war survivors whose lives are unwillingly but unavoidably entwined by the aftermath of the Korean War. Fundamentally a contemporary war novel, “The Surrendered” derives its plot from a scrutiny of the most basic of human experiences—love and conflict. Though beleaguered with a requisite love triangle and sometimes seized by paroxysms of sentiment, the novel is a paradigm of narrative layering—a finely crafted story...