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...announced it was restarting an emergency lending program that had been active during the 1990s Asian crisis for developing countries. The IMF has already sent a mission to Iceland, which is suffering from a financial meltdown. "All kinds of cooperation has to be recommended," IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told reporters...
...don’t like jeans. Call me unpatriotic, but when Levi Strauss invented the blue jean, I don’t think comfort was at the front of his mind. Being a history concentrator, I’m going to bring some historical perspective into this. When Straus conceived of his good old Levi’s during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, his reasons were purely practical: to provide sturdy protection for the legs of gold miners. These days, the closest contact with gold I have is the sprinkling of edible gold leaf on my chocolate...
...Europe's bank-by-bank, country-by-country fixes of its endangered banks have so far failed to bolster the confidence of investors and depositors. "Europe must prepare to put in place a collective line of defense," Dominique Strauss-Kahn, director-general of the International Monetary Fund, said in a speech in Paris on Monday. "The stability of the world economy is at stake...
...Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...
...forum have already sparked debate on the issue at Columbia, according to The Columbia Spectator. —Paras D. Bhayani contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...