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...almost certain that some of the weakest nations in the world will be destroyed by the current economic calamity. It is astonishing that no one in the developed countries has had the courage to speak this truth. That would at least give those countries, likely not to survive, the knowledge that no help is coming. At least, then, they could desperately try find an alternative to outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Bank: Crisis Hits Developing Nations Harder | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...statistics speak for themselves: according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, in 2006, only 7 percent of people living in households headed by a married individual were poor, while households with an unmarried leader (83 percent of whom were female) boasted poverty rates of 40.3 percent. The authors of the NBER’s June 2006 digest further concluded that changes in household structure—namely, the increase in female-headed families—were largely to blame for the rise in domestic poverty rates since the 1980s. Due to the myths perpetuated...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: “Beside Every Successful Man” | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

Current intelligence staffers rarely speak on the record, but a number of recently retired heavy hitters have told TIME that Feinstein's plan to investigate the Agency is a bad idea for a wide variety of reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIA Vets Blast Senate Probe of Operations Under Bush | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...merely a member of the audience. Squawk hearkens back to a time when performance was more interactive. A vacuum of infectious energy, the coffeehouse sucks in its viewers, who are persuaded by their friends to take control of the mic or goaded by those on stage to speak up in response to the performances.At the end of the night, when no one has anything else to perform, Kidd bids farewell with a ritualistic closing statement. He beckons all to join him as he praises the Unchainable Squawk and all other manifestations of free and open performance. This unusual blend...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Interaction Takes the Stage at Squawk | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

Europeans were among the loudest cheerleaders for Barack Obama during his presidential campaign. Soon after he won the Democratic candidacy, 200,000 people turned out in Berlin to hear him speak. But now that he is settled in the White House, many Europeans feel snubbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Europe Falling Out of Love with Obama? | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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