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...government is in the process of "stress testing" banks by making assumptions that the American economy could collapse and that unemployment could move to 10% with housing prices could fall another 20%. None of that "testing" take into account what happens if the financial status of Eastern Europe worsens. Maybe that should go on the check list to determine which banks are healthy. The answer would probably be "none." The financial world is too small for defaults on national debt not to have a tremendous ripple effect...
...endorse emerging plans to hasten the departure of U.S. forces from his country. Maliki, after all, had opposed the Bush Administration's decision to increase U.S. troop levels in the surge of 2007, and he had forced a reluctant Washington to accept a hard deadline for withdrawal in the Status of Forces Agreement adopted late last year. The growing abilities of the Iraqi security forces and the strengthening of his political position after last month's provincial elections have added to Maliki's confidence in managing without the Americans. "We welcome such a decision and support it," said Tahseen...
...complexity of the FAFSA form may also have the unfortunate consequence of preventing some people in need from applying for or receiving financial aid. It is especially unsettling that the people hurt most by such a complex form are very likely those who come from families of lower educational status and who most need financial assistance to attend college. The Department of Education should therefore try to shorten and simplify the form in any way possible—though we hope that potential streamlining does not engender a wave of supplemental questionnaires required by individual schools. To ensure that...
Despite the departure of Law School Dean Elena Kagan and other top faculty members for the Obama administration, Cogan said he remained confident in the school’s ability to retain its status as one of the nation’s best law schools...
...locals grandees had reason to be worried. The Taliban won support from a section of the poor, residents say, by targeting the wealthy and the powerful, attacking families and driving them out, then looting their abandoned homes. As Swat's notables and lawmakers fled, young, unemployed men suddenly found status as local commanders with large salaries from Fazlullah's mysteriously deep pockets. (Conspiracy theories abound as to the source of his largesse.) But the key to his success, say local observers, was Fazlullah's ability to exploit local resentment at the failings of Pakistan's venal judicial system, in which...