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Central banks are supposed to "lean against the wind." Monetary policymakers increase overnight interest rates when strong growth is threatening to push up inflation, and they reduce rates when economies begin to slide into recession and deflation. But what to do when the wind is a cyclone? That is the question confronting the U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and their counterparts as the financial storm spawned by U.S. subprime mortgages continues to wreak havoc across credit markets. The resulting higher borrowing rates and tighter credit standards threaten to pull the U.S. economy into recession...
...life.Japan has the world’s oldest hereditarymonarchy, and Haruko’s life ischoked with thousands of years’ worthof accrued ceremony: the 15 kilogramsof traditional clothing Haruko wears onher wedding day, the seven-day namingprocess for her first son. The monotonyand constriction of it push Haruko intoa nervous breakdown, forcing her toleave the royal palace to convalesce at herchildhood home.At this point, convention tells us, sheshould recover from her mental anguishand find the strength to carve out a placefor herself, even within the suffocatingenvironment of the court. Whether ornot Empress Michiko actually returnedfrom her convalescence with...
...When was the last time you suited up and played ball? -Burke Hair, ChicagoThat's a tough one. I quit 15 years ago, after my sons began to take away my advantage of using my behind to push them away from the basket...
...administration is beginning to seriously consider a review of the Board for the first time in years largely because of a student push for change. This fall, the UC established what it calls “the Ad Hoc Ad Board Committee,” which is comprised of three members of the UC and six students not serving on the council. Several members of the administration, including Pilbeam, supposedly serve as ex-officio members of the committee, though Pilbeam has never attended a meeting...
...Fallon had held his command, which included Iraq and Afghanistan, for the past year. A Navy pilot, he liked to "push the envelope" both in the air and in his comments on U.S. policy in the region. In the April Esquire, Thomas Barnett, a former professor at the Naval War College, wrote that Fallon was "brazenly challenging" the Bush Administration's push to go to war with Iran, fighting "against what he saw as an ill-advised action." The lengthy article claimed that while President Bush wants war with Iran, "the admiral has urged restraint and diplomacy," adding, "Who will...