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...Issuing temporary work permits is a nonstarter in Assam, where the growing population of Bengali-speaking Muslims - the euphemism for which is "demographic shift" - is seen as both a political and an economic threat to the ethnic Assamese majority, who are mostly Hindu. "There is a very substantial geographic belt in which the Assamese are rapidly becoming a minority," says V.R. Raghavan, an adviser at the Delhi Policy Group. "They want to retain their dominant position...
Still, many in Europe remain wary of the potential ramifications of a shift back to protectionist policies. When the U.S. House of Representatives added a protectionist clause to President Barack Obama's proposed $819 billion stimulus package last week, Europe cried foul. The clause would require infrastructure projects covered under the plan to use American-made steel. Moves are also afoot in the Senate to extend that "buy American" steel requirement to other construction materials covered by the package - causing tempers to flare in Europe. "A dangerous new steel war is looming, and we need to counter it with strong...
...Payne said. “It’s an attitude change that needs to be reversed.” Audience member and Harvard environmental research librarian George E. Clark said after the talk that people need to change their perspective. “There needs to be a shift from the human perspective to the natural one,” he said. “Think about how many environmental problems are at the root of social problems.” —Staff writer Carola A. Cintron-Arroyo can be reached at ccintron@fas.harvard.edu...
...fighting in eastern Congo is such a war of all against all, of alliances that shift by the week, that it is almost impossible for the outside world to keep up. The latest twist came on Jan. 20, when 4,000 Rwandan troops invaded once more, apparently with the acquiescence of the Congolese government. Two days later, Rwanda stunned observers--many of whom had thought Nkunda was a Rwandan proxy--by advancing on Nkunda's forces and arresting...
...Clinton's last Treasury Secretary, Summers championed regulatory reforms that relaxed New Deal-era restrictions on banks - a shift that some economists have blamed for the current financial crisis and that Obama criticized during the campaign. None of these controversies gave the candidate pause last summer when he invited Summers into his inner circle for briefings on the deteriorating economy. As both a campaign and a White House adviser, Summers helped guide Obama's conviction that the economic crisis was an opportunity as well as a curse, a chance to accelerate many of his campaign pledges. In a column about...