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...important reserve currency." If that ever happens, says HSBC chief economist Stephen King, "the dollar goes into free fall." ABN Amro's de Jong agrees that this would trigger a crisis, but doesn't think it will happen anytime soon: "Ultimately, the U.S. will lose its unique reserve-currency status, but it may take 20, 30 years." At the moment, he says, "the world simply doesn't have an alternative...
...fourth consecutive year, the London-based Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) has named Harvard the world’s leading university. The University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Yale University tied for second position. Harvard also claimed top status within the categories of life sciences and biomedicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The University ranked fourth in natural sciences, and 15th among top technological universities. In that last category, the only one in which Harvard did not make the top five, Cambridge neighbor Massachusetts Institute of Technology led the pack. The education company Quacquarelli Symonds compiles the data...
...what’s at the bottom of this? Why would Bush and some Republicans, who in some areas might champion efficiency, opt for a status quo that only increases costs for everyone else? Well, their fear is that if we provide basic primary care to the nation’s children, we are one step closer to “socialized” medicine and the land of Lenin. This may sound like dubious logic, but there’s an element of truth...
...suburb just 30 minutes from Cambridge—Lindsay Hallion faced a choice.Where would she play her college ball? Her decision came down to two head coaches, pitting Harvard’s Kathy Delaney-Smith, who had already coached in the Ivy League for 20 seasons and earned legendary status in women’s college basketball, against Jennifer Rizzotti, an up-and-coming young coach at Hartford. The catch? Rizzotti had been a former star—at point guard, no less—in the not-too-distant past, as a national champion and Player of the Year...
...broken” and there is no easy fix in the near future, said Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, in a speech on Friday. Speaking at an Institute of Politics forum, Volcker expressed his views on the United Nations, international cooperation and the general status of international government. It was a sharply critical speech, in which he voiced disapproval for what he considered a self-interested approach to international diplomacy. He advocated greater multilateralism on issues ranging from the environment and security to monetary policy, in the form of a more cooperative and powerful international government...