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...While Congress may support the Treasury's desire to have a blended bailout of the banks which includes government and private money, coordinating how those investments will go into financial firms and how it will be determined which piece of the pie private equity will get may be beyond the capacity of the personnel that the department has in place...
...announced Friday that it will reduce staff levels by roughly 25 percent in the coming months. In an effort to “re-balance and re-engineer the organization,” reductions will include investment professionals as well as “back office” and support personnel, according to University spokesman John D. Longbrake. HMC—which currently employs more than 200 people—has faced heightened scrutiny in recent months as University officials prepare for a projected 30 percent decline in the endowment for the year ending June 30. Harvard?...
...Mexico City Policy helped to shift the global family planning debate away from abortion and toward education and prevention. Various forms of prophylactic birth control—from the rhythm method to chemical contraceptives—are cheaper and safer, and they pose fewer ethical problems than abortion. Increased support for NGOs that use or advocate abortion as birth control will only lead to more abortions...
...Latin military and security forces have an unfortunate history of sliding into drug lords' pockets - a former Ecuadorean deputy interior minister under Correa was recently charged with drug trafficking - it's not all that outrageous that the U.S. ask to have some input in exchange for aid (or "logistical support," per Astorga...
Netanyahu's support may also be eroding because Israeli right-wingers have found a new champion, Avigdor Lieberman, 50. A Moldovan-born immigrant and ex-nightclub bouncer, Lieberman is denounced by the leftist Israeli press as "a racist" and a nationalist in the mold of Russia's Vladimir Putin. He wants Israeli Arabs to swear loyalty to the Jewish state or lose their voting rights; and he is demanding that borders be re-drawn so that more than 100,000 Israeli Arabs, against their will, would become part of a future Palestinian state. Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party is expected...