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...investment losses are sure to rankle lawmakers already unhappy with the way the Treasury has handled the first stage of the $700 billion financial-rescue plan. In a hearing on Wednesday, members of the House Financial Services Committee said the Treasury has not done enough to slow foreclosures, increase bank lending or protect taxpayers' money. Lawmakers questioned Assistant Treasury Secretary Neel Kashkari on why his agency had not yet hired an outside firm to help manage its investments. They also wanted to know whether the Treasury Department had set a limit on executive compensation at the firms in which Treasury...
...look to South Africa for help in this struggle. South Africa wields a great deal of influence given its geographic proximity to Zimbabwe, as well as its role as an economic power in the region. The African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party in South Africa, has been slow to respond to the crisis in Zimbabwe. Only in light of the recent news of the cholera outbreak has the ANC acknowledged the problem, declaring that the parties in Zimbabwe ought to work toward unity. But as with the reaction by the AU, this attitude is insufficient. South Africa must take...
...plans, as well as changes to the implementation of community benefits. “If Harvard can’t have their expansion at the same rate we were thinking about two or three months ago, then of course the amount of benefits is going to have to slow down as well,” said Mellone. He added that this slowdown may be beneficial to the detail of the community planning process. In an interview yesterday, University President Drew G. Faust said that the timeline in Allston has changed. “I’m sure that what...
...Explaining his personal investment in his cases, he mentions a client who used her settlement money to study to become a pharmacist overseas. Money, Hartigan says, can change lives quickly and visibly—even as the changes in bank policies can seem grating and slow...
...pledged to fight and win - has become an aimless absurdity. It began with a specific target. Afghanistan was where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda lived, harbored by the Islamic extremist Taliban government. But the enemy escaped into Pakistan, and for the past seven years, Afghanistan has been a slow bleed against an array of mostly indigenous narco-jihadi-tribal guerrilla forces that we continue to call the "Taliban." These ragtag bands are funded by opium profits and led by assorted religious extremists and druglords, many of whom have safe havens in Pakistan...