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Central banks are supposed to "lean against the wind." Monetary policymakers increase overnight interest rates when strong growth is threatening to push up inflation, and they reduce rates when economies begin to slide into recession and deflation. But what to do when the wind is a cyclone? That is the question confronting the U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and their counterparts as the financial storm spawned by U.S. subprime mortgages continues to wreak havoc across credit markets. The resulting higher borrowing rates and tighter credit standards threaten to pull the U.S. economy into recession...
...pretty mellow person. I don’t really get too angry too often. But I was prettyangry when my friend Ryan stole my cat. I haven’t seen the cat or Ryan for two and ahalf years. OK, that’s not true, but he threatened to do it. If he did I would be angry.Jeffrey C. Witt ’09RR: Who do you play in “12 AngryMen?”JW: I play the notorious third juror.My character is perhaps the angriestof the 12 angry men. I kind of hold agrudge...
Sudan's killing fields have grown. Fighting along Darfur's western border has spilled into Chad, where a separate civil war is brewing, and rebel attacks against Chinese-run oil fields and Sudanese police garrisons in the neighboring region of Kordofan threaten to push the war eastward. The rebels say the attacks against China's assets are justified by Beijing's support for the Sudanese regime. But while China has since exerted some limited pressure on Khartoum to resolve its crises, the rebel raids could serve only to expand the theater of hostilities...
...them. You're the first white people we've seen in years." We asked about the militant bases in the area. Adam said all outsiders - both the militants, and the Ethiopian and U.S. warplanes that hunt them - were a curse. "The Americans bomb. The Ethiopians bomb. And the ICU threaten us on the ground," he said, using the acronym for the Somali Islamic Courts Union, driven out of Mogadishu by a U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion. "None of these people are from here...
...weather on an important day. China makes it happen. Last month Chinese officials announced that they will work to ensure that the skies remain bright during the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics this August, tracking clouds in the days leading up to the ceremonies and, if any threaten to deliver an untimely shower, forcing the rain to fall early...