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Schroeder has now been fired from his position at Sidley Austin, a prestigious, multinational law firm with offices in World Trade Center North, where he was due to begin work this coming January. The firm lost one of their employees, a switchboard operator, in the 2001 attacks.Classmates of Schroeder at the Law School contacted by The Crimson either did not return repeated requests for comment or declined to comment...
...Sunset Bungalows, tel: (856-30) 534 5109, a few dollars a night gets you a basic cabin with a double bed, mosquito net and porch hanging over the water. Many of the cabins on Don Det are owned by farmers capitalizing on the island's burgeoning tourist trade, so don't be surprised to find pigs and chickens wandering the grounds, or a farm dog curled up on your porch in the morning. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
...long ago, Ricardo Herrero was one of Miami's Cuban-American hard-liners, an ardent supporter of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba as well as the ban on U.S. travel to the communist island. But a half-dozen trips to Cuba during this decade have changed his mind about the latter. "There are no better ambassadors of American culture and American democracy than Americans themselves," says Herrero, 31. Many fellow Cuban Americans who've traveled there, he adds, have come to the same conclusion: they "always come back saying it was a completely eye-opening experience" and have "changed...
...reason is that while Cuban-American voters may still favor the trade embargo - though recent polls indicate support for that is fading fast, too, especially as more young Cuban Americans and recently arrived Cuban immigrants register to vote - they no longer see the travel ban as an inseparable component. In fact, they see lifting the ban as a way to throw a bigger ball into Havana's court, one that might oblige current Cuban President Raul Castro, Fidel's younger brother, to release more jailed dissidents or make other reform gestures...
...That meant attacking the problem at the root. Just as the U.S. saved too little while consuming too much, China saved too much and consumed too little. The result was a lopsided international trade scorecard. China ran huge current account surpluses - peaking at 10% of GDP in the first half of 2008 - and as a result accumulated a massive load of foreign exchange, which it turned around and loaned, mostly to the U.S. government, which enabled Americans to go on borrowing and spending. China, policymakers said, intended to break this unhealthy cycle. (See pictures of the making of modern China...