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...called for countries to face "corrective measures" if they under-perform economically, although that idea was quickly shot down by Germany, Britain and the Netherlands. Herman Van Rompuy, the new E.U. President, put forth a more nuanced proposal last month, saying E.U. leaders need to collectively take on a role of economic governance when they meet at summits. "The financial and economic crisis obliges us to take steps on this road," he said...
...gone unheard by the UC. Hot breakfast was a key issue during the presidential and vice presidential campaigns earlier this year, and the current report is clearly a response to undergraduate demand. When it comes to hot breakfast, the UC seems to be fulfilling its role by bringing student concerns to the administration. In light of this, we encourage students to raise their voices with similar force in the future and hope that the UC continues to listen...
...worker, through their exhumation, to survive and pay his bills. In “Hard Times” an aging couple deals with the economic hardships of the Great Depression while subsisting off of their farm. Whether providing sustenance or burial space, the earth of Appalachia plays a decisive role in the everyday lives of the people in the region, a role which changes little from the Civil War to the present...
That is in marked contrast to the American experience. Leslie Berlin, project historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University, says the U.S. government and large corporations did provide funding and even facilities to encourage innovation, which played a major role in the industry's success, but that "there has not been an effort to manage, to pick and choose what works," she said in a phone interview from California. "That is certainly not the way Silicon Valley has done it in the past." (See why President Obama wants a cybersecurity czar...
...NATO revises its "strategic concept" - the once-a-decade effort to maintain the alliance's relevance in a post-Cold War world - there is a scent of desperation in the air. For the past 20 years, it has struggled to adapt to an expeditionary role, capable of dispatching troops thousands of miles from home, "out of area," as NATO officials put it. The reason is simple: If NATO can't do out of area, it's out of business. "NATO, I think, still deserves to continue," Alexander Vershbow, the Pentagon's top international thinker, said on Feb. 26. "If NATO...