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...nearly impossible to come to grips with this issue by just looking at it from an academic perspective. It is important to see it firsthand. Working in Cambodia opened my eyes and taught me that microfinance is not a panacea for global poverty but rather a respite. No obvious solution to the problem exists, but it is a problem that I am confident can be ameliorated by our generation. —Charles LaCalle, a Crimson business editor, is a government concentrator in Kirkland House...
...were living in East Orange [, New Jersey], and I made friends with a bunch of student nurses, and I'd go over to their dormitory and play for them. I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop...
...President's Working Group on Financial Markets, an inter-agency collection of regulators led by Paulson, had actually been looking into potential problems with hedge funds and derivatives. But they missed CDOs. Paulson terms the oversight "obvious after the fact." Not so, say some observers. "I've got a lot of respect for Paulson and his credentials," says Glenn Hubbard, who was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in the early Bush years and is now dean of Columbia Business School. "But this looks like the Fed and Treasury were lurching from crisis to crisis, when much...
...Briton's date with a U.S. court on charges linking him to what one U.S. prosecutor called "the biggest military computer hack of all time," is edging inexorably closer. Delivering a ruling that seemed pitched at would-be hackers everywhere, the appeal court judge said, "It must be obvious to any defendant that if you choose to commit a crime in a foreign country, you run the risk of being prosecuted in that country," and no matter that the sentence McKinnon faces is likely to be "appreciably harsher" than if he was tried...
...inner circle. Thaksin himself, who was ousted in a September 2006 bloodless coup by a military clique that claimed the popular leader was corrupt, divisive and disrespectful of the nation's revered monarchy, also faces four separate trials on corruption-related charges. "This verdict makes it a lot more obvious that Thaksin might not survive his legal troubles," said Professor Jade Donavanik, a former dean of Siam University Law School in Bangkok...