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...report released Tuesday, ratings agency Standard & Poor's says there are 140 large U.S. companies on its "Weakest Links" list of low quality debtors - the group "most vulnerable to default." That's up nearly twofold from the beginning of this year. Among the troubled firms on the agency's list are such household names as clothing retailer Eddie Bauer, amusement park operator Six Flags and pizza chain Sbarro. Also on the list are doughnut baker Krispy Kreme and mobile technology titan Palm, as well as a number of the nation's largest airlines, including JetBlue and the corporate parents...
Although the North Koreans’ musical instruments were in poor condition, Koh said that the musicians exceeded his expectations tenfold...
Latin American countries are losing control of their police forces due to growing economic inequality, leading to political violence aimed at the poor, warned John M. Sheffield II ’09, during a presentation on police brutality in South America yesterday evening. The discussion focused on the two summers Sheffield spent in Buenos Aires, working with the Argentinean human rights group La Liga Argentina por los Derechos del Hombre, as well as researching his thesis there. Sheffield, who is an undergraduate associate and research fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, emphasized...
...Secretary General. After reminiscing on his graduate school days, Ban then addressed his five top concerns as Secretary General: global financial stability, climate change, global health, terrorism, and nuclear disarmament. “These global public goods distinguish themselves because they endanger all countries, whether rich or poor, small or big,” Ban said. Ban called terrorism and weapons of mass destruction “the most serious threat to international peace and security.” He said that nuclear disarmament and the move toward a WMD-free world would be the best path to achieve international...
...legacy, says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a political analyst at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University - or the current divisions over him that have Thailand's people on the edge of violence. Sometimes said to be the most divisive political figure in Thailand's history, Thaksin remains enormously popular with the rural poor for his populist policies like cheap health care and easy credit. But the billionaire businessman is also still reviled by the urban middle class and conservatives, who view him as a corrupt authoritarian whose power and wealth posed a threat to the nation's revered monarchy...