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...serious rupture: a devastating terrorist attack, the bursting of the bubble-like housing-price increases in some parts of the U.S. and Europe, a change of policy by central banks in Asia to limit their dollar purchases. Any of those could unnerve financial markets and trigger a bigger worldwide reaction, they agreed. Sachs said it would take just two or three such events to come together, "and things get a lot worse. That's not a high probability, but it can't be written...
...does make me angry as a woman in science that someone in such a high position of power thinks that about women, but the reaction on campus has been a little overzealous,” said Susan E. Maya ’08, who expects to concentrate in biochemistry, at lunch at Annenberg...
Like many of the Faculty’s statements, this obviously goes beyond a mere reaction to University President Lawrence H. Summers’ January comments regarding women in the sciences. Apologists for those comments have accused critics of using them as an opportunity to bring up supposedly unrelated questions...
...SUPPORT LIFTING THE ARMS EMBARGO ON CHINA? It was a justified reaction to the massacre at Tiananmen Square. Now there is a new government in place in China that has taken modest steps toward liberalization. For me that is certainly not enough. But still, first steps have been taken, and therefore I think the embargo is ready to be lifted. Germany has no intentions whatsoever of delivering weapons to China...
...evidence, though, this so-called trust deficit hasn't been reflected in sales. "American brands continue to sell very well in all continents," says Maurice Lvy, chief executive of the big French advertising agency Publicis. "The danger [is] that one day behavior could follow attitudes, and then the reaction can be brutal...