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...outsized construction sector. Factor in soaring unemployment, weaker consumer spending and the gummed-up credit markets, and Ireland is facing "the most challenging fiscal and economic position in a generation," Finance Minister Brian Lenihan told parliament on Oct. 14. "We must all pull together if we are to return to more prosperous times...
...American economy. “I certainly think that this is a good time and opportunity for people to start thinking beyond North America and Europe,” Han said. Lawrence K. Barchok ’12, a native of Kenya, said that he wants to return to Africa after graduate school. Following the event, he introduced himself to Abimola, who told him, “Well, don’t spend too long. Go and make some money back at home...
...born in Santiago, Chile, the son of a truck driver (and boxer) who moved the family to Mexico City when Bolaño was still a boy. He dropped out of high school to pursue his obsession with poetry full-time. After a brief and not very successful return to Chile - he was imprisoned by Pinochet as a radical, then released when it turned out that he had gone to school with his guards - he fell in with a band of antiestablishment poets called the infrarealistas, who specialized in showing up at the readings of better-known poets and yelling...
...Iraq. But on Monday, multiple bombings just minutes apart tore up parts of Baghdad during the morning rush hour. While alarming because there hadn't been a major attack for a while, the bombs that exploded in the predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood of Kasra are unlikely to herald a return to the bad old days, according to security officials. Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups, they say, have been severely weakened and are merely shadows of their former selves, too hamstrung to conduct extended campaigns of terror. (See pictures of Iraq's attempts to restore normalcy...
...find anything wrong with Harvard’s football squad. Saturday’s game was no different as senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti led the Crimson offense, going 25-for-40 for 376 yards, and the defense managed three interceptions and forced two fumbles, one of which was returned for a touchdown. But what Saturday’s game also exposed was Harvard’s only question mark: special teams. A snap over the punter’s head resulted in a quick Lions touchdown, another punt was returned by Columbia’s Austin Knowlin for a touchdown...