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...Such numbers persuade Goldin that globalization's boosters should not panic. Recent events that stress the rebuilding of national economic walls, he says, "are tiny compared to the overall trends in investment, trade, tourism or other forms of interchange." Sometimes, to be sure, complaints about trade and foreign ownership mask other issues. Thais may have marched on the Singapore embassy chanting "Thailand's not for sale!" but it was Thaksin, and his windfall from the sale of Shin Corp., that they had in their sights. "If [Singapore] took over a glass factory," says Kasit Piromya, a former Thai ambassador...
...hours every day, including weekends. Cut back on spicy foods and chocolate if you find yourself waking up with heartburn. Limit your intake of caffeine, which makes it more difficult to fall asleep, and alcohol, which causes a rebound effect that can wake you up. Practice meditation or other stress-reduction techniques. If none of those work, you can talk to your doctor about whether prescription sleeping pills make sense. But remember, they really are best suited for short-term...
...State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs; or former Republican National Committee chairmen Marc F. Racicot and Ed Gillespie. Former Senator Dan Coats of Indiana, who helped with Bush's two Supreme Court confirmations, was also mentioned. A Republican official familiar with White House deliberations, while careful to stress that only the President knows what is going to happen, said: "If the President was going to bring in an additional person, it would likely be someone that he had a preexisting relationship with and had confidence in - that understood the complex relationships that exist in the White House today...
...spoke with former Senator Max Cleland and a group of veterans to a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. While Kerry came to Harvard for the premiere of “Hidden Wounds,” a documentary on veterans of the war in Iraq suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the event took a political turn as several dozen protesters gathered together at 79 JFK Street. “Bush Lied. Kerry Complied. Bring the troops home now,” they chanted outside the Kennedy School. The protest was sponsored by the organizations Not One More...
...successful, the College must let peer academic advisors give freshmen honest advising on courses because it would be detrimental to freshmen to give them half of the story.An improved Prefect Program and a new peer academic advising system would dramatically improve freshman year, allowing first-years to reduce the stress of adjusting to college life and better explore academic fields. College administrators have laudably promised significant funding for the new program. Now, we hope that the SAB will recommend, and that University Hall will agree, that freshman can benefit from peer academic advising, but that it should remain separate from...