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...Europe and Asia have failed to restore lenders' confidence. The London Interbank Offered Rate, the benchmark for short-term interbank lending rates, actually rose to 4.75% Thursday, its highest level of the year. In Hong Kong, interbank lending rates have doubled in the past month. Banks remain gun-shy about resuming lending, in part because they remain unclear about the scope and details of a proposed U.S. bailout of its banking industry. "The level of trust between financial institutions is relatively low," says Tai Hui, head of Asia economic research for Standard Chartered. "That needs to be restored as soon...
...export-driven economies in Asia, there is little to do but wait and hope that the U.S. and Europe will find the right medicine. "We [in Asia] remain spectators in a sport in which spectators get hurt," Mowat wrote in a recent report...
...common room by saying “Balderdash” or “flibbertigibbet” and walking past a swinging portrait of a Fat Lady, Harvard’s common rooms are accessed by the tap of an ID card, and Harvard’s portraits remain fixed to their walls. But for those who know when and how to look, Harvard’s impressive portrait collection, like the paintings of Hogwarts, contains more than meets the eye—including historical controversies...
...movement began around the 1960s when some Christians within mainline Protestant and Roman Catholic churches adopted certain Pentecostal beliefs, including the acceptance of gifts - or "charisms" - from the Holy Spirit, like speaking in tongues. While Pentecostals can be broadly described as Charismatic, what distinguishes Charismatics is their desire to remain within their original traditions...
...Ukrainian democracy has a way of muddying the picture. On Wednesday, President Viktor Yushchenko, a strong U.S. ally and champion of NATO membership, called a snap parliamentary election, following the collapse of his ruling coalition last month. Questions of the country's future relationship with Russia and the West remain contested in Ukraine's political maneuvering, but it was not manipulation on the part of Moscow that brought down the Yushchenko government. The immediate threat comes from Yushchenko's erstwhile key coalition partner, the ambitious populist politician Yulia Tymoshenko. She had joined with him in the "Orange Revolution" that eclipsed...