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...many Harvard students, community service is measured not by fancy data and educational metrics, but by time, energy, and sometimes even emotional turmoil. While this often leaves students feeling defeated or futile, PBHA leaders say, that doesn’t mean that volunteers don’t accomplish something positive...
...former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, the two bitter rivals agreed to form a coalition government.) While there is simple pride at Obama's rise to prominence in the U.S., there has also been hope that his influence could go a long way toward calming the country's political turmoil. He has kept in regular touch with his relatives here for updates...
...Northern Rock is a larger and more complex case, but the principles are the same. Instead, Brown and his Chancellor, Alistair Darling, spent five months unsuccessfully trying to find a private-sector solution, which was never in any genuine sense going to be possible, least of all amid the turmoil of today's financial markets. While the situation deteriorated, the taxpayers' exposure grew, and the bank was allowed to continue its high-risk lending. (High-risk borrowing had undone it, but its lending was, and still is, almost equally risky...
...unpopular former military chief knows as well as anyone that Monday's election in Pakistan is a referendum on his rule. An opposition victory could set in motion a process culminating in Musharraf's unseating - and it will very likely plunge Pakistan into a new wave of political turmoil...
...Group of Seven (G-7) meeting in Tokyo on Saturday, where finance ministers and central bank governors discussed how to minimize what U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, Jr., referred to as the "spillover of capital markets to the modern global economy" - that is, the global turmoil that has built up in markets since last August...