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...science, although these are not mutually exclusive, of course,” said Harris, who also chairs the Gen Ed committee. Harris added that he would like the category to address international development and multinational institutions, with courses on topics like global health, the European Union, and NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Although Societies of the World may sound like Foreign Cultures, none of the seven classes approved so far hail from the Foreign Cultures category. “Some people just assume Societies of the World is just another name for Foreign Cultures, and that?...
Eastern Europe avoided the first wave of banking problems caused by the sub-prime mess, but as the global economy slows and credit dries up, there's plenty to cry about. Many of the region's capitals borrowed heavily to fuel the boom, and those bills are coming due. On Oct. 26, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced a $16.5 billion bailout for Ukraine, to prevent a run on its banks and shore up its currency. Three days later, the IMF agreed with the World Bank and the European Union on a $25 billion rescue package to restore confidence...
...insanely popular, and whose buses are plastered with Obama decals. "U.S. Poll: Why Obama is the world's choice," screamed the front-page headline from Monday's Daily Nation newspaper. "Democrat widely seen as the only leader who can change the way America relates to other countries," read the sub-head...
...inimitably audacious editorial writers at the Wall Street Journal brought to the nation's attention the existence of a vast and allegedly pernicious class of "lucky duckies" who pay no federal income tax because their incomes are in sub-$40,000 territory and they qualify for one or more of the many credits added to the tax code in recent decades...
...like SST and K Records, whose mission statement spoke fundamentally to the ethic of “Do It Yourself” and otherwise progress-in-obscurity, have been reorganized—transformed from cultural agents to cultural artifacts—in the shadows of the pseudo-indie juggernauts, Sub Pop and Matador. 2008 marks 20 years since the appearance of underground rock’s most ambitious, interesting, and accessible showcase of work—the showcase to which “indie” perhaps owes its existence—My Bloody Valentine?...