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...thrilled about slowing exports that could easily translate into lower growth and higher unemployment. Because of this, Berlusconi promised yesterday that he would create a “Rome-Paris” axis with Sarkozy, a long-term critic of the ECB, to pressure the Bank into relaxing its strict monetary goals. According to some analysts, the administration of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Spain could also join the alliance in fear of its own housing bubble woes worsening employment prospects...
...little deeper you will find this rich history,” curator Heather Hess says. This history includes the fact that, in the 18th century, Chinese porcelain was known in Europe as “white gold.” “There were strict secrets on how to create Chinese porcelain, so European scientists and alchemists attempted for hundreds of years to replicate East Asian porcelain,” Hess says. “China was known as the bleeding bowl of Saxony, because Augustus the Strong, one of the administrators, spent so much of the state?...
...long-term view, however. In a game of beggar-thy-neighbor, they're trying to keep inflation at home from soaring out of control. Vietnam recently imposed export quotas to maintain domestic supplies, which reduces the international inventory and drives up the global price. China has also imposed strict limits on exports to restrain domestic prices. In the Philippines, meanwhile, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo personally negotiated a guarantee of 1.5 million metric tons of rice from Vietnam...
...asking for neither forgiveness nor permission, the College introduced a litany of strict new rules on partying, and on the hooch that makes it all worthwhile. House Committees will henceforth not be allowed to serve hard liquor at their Stein Clubs, residents won’t be allowed to advertise their private parties, and gatherings in dorm rooms will have to be registered with resident tutors up to three weeks in advance...
...husband and his friends to gather together to watch the Super Bowl: just sketch in some beards, insert a prayer break and delete the alcohol. (The legal drinking age is one American law that Muslims disregard completely - Islam prohibits alcohol consumption, at any age.) Such strict rules, to some, are a sign of extremism, and so are the beards - to some, our five daily prayers are another...