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Unfortunately, Suleiman and his caretaker team probably won't have enough time to make a real dent in Lebanon's political culture. Parliamentary elections scheduled for June are likely to reopen all the old wounds. Both sides seem unprepared to return to the status quo. Hizballah no longer trusts its rivals to leave the group's military infrastructure untouched. And the American-supported coalition is busy scaring voters with dire scenarios of what will happen if the Hizballah opposition wins enough seats to form its own government: international sanctions and isolation akin to what happened when Hamas rose to power...
...year. The university is tasked with producing knowledge and research that ranges from cures for diseases to models for understanding modernity. Harvard exists as a center of teaching and scholarship, and it is these activities that the government and taxpayers have deemed valuable enough to afford it tax-exempt status...
...purchases aren't always the best purchases: "Despite your initial excitement and a high price tag, adaptation guarantees that your focus will soon stray from the wondrous pleasures of your new computer or larger apartment, consigning them to mere comfort status. Rather than binging on such big, costly amenities, a better - and cheaper - strategy for boosting your daily satisfaction quotient would be to add many more simple, inexpensive ones ... After all, on any given Monday morning, your comfortable bank balance pales beside a good cup of coffee...
...nice to forget December. Investment banks traditionally end their fiscal year in November, commercial banks in December. Since Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley shifted to commercial-bank status late last year, they decided to shift their fiscal years starting this year. In doing so, they orphaned the month of December 2008. For Goldman, it was revealed this week, that meant saying goodbye to $780 million in losses that will never show up on the bottom line of an earnings report...
...limbo or political purgatory," Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a China scholar at the University of Hong Kong, said this week in an interview published in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. "He is not totally taboo and people can speak about him but at the same time his status remains ambiguous...