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...alone in his frustration. In the past two weeks tens of thousands of Ukrainians have descended upon banks across Kiev, anxious to get hold of their cash. With a number of banks already under the administration of the National Bank, worried citizens have drained over 20% of hryvnia deposits since November. As banks struggle to come up with enough cash to meet demand, one has even proposed a scheme of exchanging deposits for homes that have been repossessed. "I have to come here every day to stand in line in the cold, with no food or toilet," Vesna says...
...United States currently faces an approximately 20 percent probability of entering into an economic depression, according to a Wednesday Wall Street Journal opinion piece penned by Harvard Economics professor Robert J. Barro. Drawing upon the financial statistics of 251 previous stock-market crashes and 97 depressions, Barro wrote that “the odds are roughly one-in-five that the current recession will snowball into the macroeconomic decline of 10% or more that is the hallmark of a depression.” Barro also wrote that he was skeptical about the effectiveness of the current federal stimulus package...
...Bhabha as “one of America’s premier dancers, and the only one with a degree from the Kennedy School,” was perhaps the manifestation of the spirit behind the ambitious evening. A beloved former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, upon retiring he pursued both public and artistic administration. Woetzel lightheartedly led the gathered congregation in the famous opening passage of George Balanchine’s ballet “Serenade.” Woetzel explained Balanchine had set the ballet, accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s glorious...
...When faced with the perfection and innocence of spring, and his own fear of the birds and the bees, he says: “something inside me made me want to tear it apart.” With this in mind, the listener’s disarmed revulsion upon first hearing music so overwhelmingly naïve can be seen as a natural defense mechanism, a way to mask our own insecurities by inflicting violence on something pure. In album opener “Saddle Up,” this world of puppies and playgrounds faces an external, rather than...
...Zardari. All my party is talking about is a democratic Pakistan. This is what we actually decided with Benazir Bhutto. She is the one who signed the Charter of Democracy with me. It was the political will of Benazir Bhutto, which Mr. Zardari should have followed and acted upon. He has not followed her political will. He has taken a different agenda altogether, an agenda which will take Pakistan further away from democracy...