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...access to rich-country capital markets. "Now we live in a world where there are huge global capital markets, where, if anything, investors are too willing to invest in developing countries," says Adam Lerrick, a former investment banker who teaches economics at Carnegie Mellon University. The World Bank's net lending has plummeted over the past few years, even as it keeps shopping loans to the likes of Brazil, Turkey, Russia and China, sometimes on hugely generous terms...
...cites her “really wonderful support system” as an important part of her life. “Having that support around you is really a safety net in case you ever slip or if anything ever becomes too overwhelming,” she says. “It is truly that which makes it doable...
After 20 Cambridge Police officers appealed to the city council last night— saying that officers who also serve in military combat receive a smaller net paycheck than other city employees pulling double duty—the council passed a measure to give all enlisted employees their full city salary while in combat. Surrounded by supporters and colleagues in police uniform, Detectives Thomas Glynn and Brian Branley—each of whom served in the Massachusetts Army National Guard—said “other city employees have received full pay during their deployments?...
...final game of the season to finish last in the eight-team Eastern Championships. The game was largely decided on advantage situations. The Bison, which drew eight ejections, executed extremely well, scoring on five of their advantage opportunities. In contrast, the Crimson found the back of the net on just two of its six man-up situations. Sophomore Devon MacLaughlin drew three of the six ejections. While Harvard played tight defense and only gave up six goals, Bucknell was even stingier. The Bison stripped the ball from the Crimson 13 times and held a shutout through the first half...
...order had swept away not just Saddam's thugs but also, for example, something like forty thousand schoolteachers, who had joined the Ba'ath Party simply to keep their jobs. This order wasn't protecting Iraqis; it was destroying what little institutional foundations were left in the country. The net effect was to persuade many ex-Ba'athists to join the insurgency. Condi said she was very frustrated by the situation, but nothing ever happened. Several months later, with a full-blown insurgency under way, an interagency group headed by Deputy National Security Advisor Bob Blackwill desperately looked for ways...