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...amid the shocking developments of the past few months, the dollar has surprisingly gained strength. It has rallied more than 16% against the euro since its trough in early July and made impressive advances against the Australian dollar, South Korea's won and other currencies. There's a fairly simple explanation for this: it's not that people want to own dollars, its just that they want to own the alternatives even less. There's certainly nothing mysterious about the dollar's recent strength against the euro. Between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2008, the dollar lost 19% against...
...drunk e-mail, I wouldn’t understand life the way I do today. With Mail Goggles, my roommate’s opus on the meaning of universe would never have found its way to my inbox. For one, math is not her strength. And for two, she might have paused and thought, “Is this really something I want to send out to half of my address book?” I think I speak for all 76 of us when I say that e-mails like those should be sent daily...
...economy was the envy of the world,” Summers said. “We were on the cutting edge of technological innovation in fields like biotechnology and the Internet. This financial crisis has changed the view of the United States and of our own sense of economic strength.”Summers, who is an adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, also took a shot at the Bush administration. He said that while the United States still attracts “many of the world’s most talented people,” misfires like...
...that the heart of a statesman should be in his head. His body language is restrained, his emotional range narrow: "I don't get too high when I'm high, and I don't get too low when I'm low," he says. "That, I think, is a temperamental strength...
Yale began by taking two close sets by the identical tally of 25-19 on the strength of its attack, highlighted by Bulldog junior Cat Dailey and her nine kills...