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...entire global economy seems to be led by a stock market whose value is based on hype and hysteria. The economy spins out of control time and time again. Profits slump, companies cut costs and sack workers, and a system that supposedly brings prosperity instead leads to ever richer CEOs while thousands of employees are out of a job. Consumer confidence falls, and things get even worse. Isn't this an insane way to run an economic system? CHAMINDA JAYANETTI Dartford, England...
...Professor Graham’s appointment is thoroughly good news for the Divinity School in particular and Harvard in general,” Carrasco wrote in an e-mail. “By bringing an historian of religions into leadership, there is a chance for richer dialogues between various disciplines in the study of religion and in ministerial training...
...year-old daughter is on the way to building a reputation that will someday eclipse his. "Anoushka has so much more than I had," he says. "She not only knows what I knew, what I taught her, but she's more acquainted with today, so she's richer. That's what happens...
Since last year, hundreds of al-Qaeda terrorists of Arab nationality, richer and better at blending in, have vanished into Karachi, the megacity of 12 million on the Arabian Sea. Diplomats say that the Qaeda fugitives who reached Karachi late last year "were not living in slum areas" but preferred high-rent districts where money buys high-walled privacy. Some were believed to have hidden in posh safe houses for much of the winter. But since then, they have scattered again. Says a senior Pakistani official: "They don't like to keep in one place. They're in lower-class...
...heirs to fortune but barefoot geniuses who discovered new worlds in their garages, who wrote best sellers and sat grinning from magazine covers and defended the billions they made on the grounds that they were making us all rich in the process. You did not actually need to get richer to feel richer; even other people's paper profits had a magical effect: Times are good; the Dow is up; let's go to the Sizzler instead of McDonald's, the Seychelles instead of Sarasota. Cabbies turned day traders got crushed when the NASDAQ tanked, but careful investors...