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...novella Riding the Bullet exclusively on the Web; more than 400,000 downloads were recorded in the first 24 hours. At the time it was a staggering number. This month, King is dipping his toe into the Internet yet again. To promote Just After Sunset - his first volume of short stories in six years - King's publisher, Scribner, has teamed up with Marvel Comics and CBS Mobile to produce and distribute an online comic adaptation of a previously unreleased story from the collection...
...similar contribution a few days earlier. For banks across Europe, as for their U.S. counterparts, 2008 is proving painfully difficult. Globally, banks could write down as much as $450 billion more over the next three to four years, according to research from Deutsche Bank. Lenders, it says, are short of funds equivalent to 4% of their balance sheets, with those in Ireland, Spain and Britain finding fund-raising particularly tricky. As the U.S. sputtered over the past year, Europe's economies initially drew praise for motoring on. But housing markets in Ireland, Spain and the U.K. have turned down fast...
...statehood as the basis for admission. But for organizations like the World Trade Organization, which could take in countries under the name of a separate customs territory, we did exactly that. We were admitted in 2002 with a very awkward name: Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan. Chinese Taipei for short. This is a new model. We are trying to get into the World Health Assembly. The first obstacle is the name we are going to use, pretty much like WTO, we're not using Taiwan or Republic of China. We will be flexible on the names. We are seeking observer...
...lagged Harvard students through the narrow streets of Barcelona’s Old City to a restaurant off La Rambla, the city’s touristy yet iconic nucleus, which slices through the original part of the city. Brought to a long table on the roof deck of the short building, we met our professor and his family. The sun was setting, the wine flowed freely, and it felt like we could have been in the countryside rather than overlooking a bustling street...
...with whom I shared a park bench was surprised when I told him I was from the United States, and he told me that my Spanish was “bastante bien”—good enough. If my Spanish has really improved during my short time here, then that’s bastante bien for me. —Victoria B. Kabak '09, a Crimson news executive, is a social studies concentrator in Kirkland House...