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While myths associated with Widener, Memorial Hall and the Union run rampant, very few of us are aware that the deepest darkest, most fearsome secrets here at Harvard lurk in--The Quad. In order to penetrate the compendium of riddles, the pandora's box of mystery, the den of debauchery we know and love to be the Quad, I decide to investigate one of the truly remarkable institutions here at Harvard...
Over 50,000 survivors have applied for food stamps, and rampant cheating is suspected. Relief workers have imposed a 72-hour waiting period to cross-check names and addresses. Complaints are also rising about landlords who refuse to refund rents and security deposits on condemned apartments...
...independence from France. The Islamic Salvation Front, seeking to turn the country into a religious state, has attracted the allegiance of millions in a population ripe with discontent after 30 years of misrule by the one-party socialist government. Declining oil revenues, crushing unemployment, rampant inflation and widespread government corruption have fueled a revolt against the old leadership and a crisis in national identity...
Sachs: Hyperinflation is not an act of nature. It is a result of government policies. So it depends on what the government does. But the people who have been fighting to stop the rampant printing of money are gone. The people who are now in power have very little self-control. The central-bank governor is a huge fan of the rapid printing of money. The restraints to inflation that existed before are gone. In Ukraine, where there has been a reform-communist government like this in power for two years, the inflation rate is 100% a month...
...guarantee that they will go forward to a working market economy. They're midway. The current is very fast in the middle of the river, and things could still get swept away in chaos. With a half-reform economy, huge budget deficits, corrupt lobbying groups, you could get rampant inflation. That could produce rampant political polarization and eventually a breakdown of the very fragile democracy...