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...shattered economy in 2003. It probably helped that shortly before the G-20 announcement, the IMF gave the world a peek at its new, softer and more generous self, by agreeing to give Mexico a credit line of up to $40 billion. Mexico isn't in the same sort of crisis that has driven it to the IMF several times in the past 30 years, but it wanted backup financing agreed just in case. Tellingly, the IMF extended the credit line through a new facility that doesn't impose the same sort of rigid conditions that gave the organization such...
...justify the fact that Belgium has a substantially larger quota than India, Brazil or Mexico?" asks Ariel Buira, of the Mexican Council for International Affairs. The IMF's legions of critics even include other international agencies. Malcolm Knight, a former general manager of the Bank for International Settlements - a sort of club for central bankers - recently blasted the IMF in an article that described its performance as "less than evenhanded or effective," and accused it of being asleep at the wheel in the months before the current economic turmoil. "The IMF was uncharacteristically disengaged from the debate on growing economic...
...captain Max Motschwiller and the team have gotten used to this sort of outstanding play from Cohen...
...pleases us immensely that you have responded so favorably to our electronic mail invitation. We must admit that we initially feared our recent decision to open our posh Quincy Street premises to students for a fee might be, well, misunderstood. Taken crassly, reduced to financial terms of the crudest sort. The term “desperate” may even have been thrown out—presumptuously, of course...
...weird video clips on it. Pretty much all the bells and whistles you'd expect somebody to have if they couldn't communicate to you in spoken syllables. An odor of marijuana in the front, there. Very exciting. Well, not really. Sort of awkward, actually, for a hopelessly un-hip blog, which doesn't have time on a Sunday afternoon to get blasted out of its gourd so that it can fake like it's "feeling the music...