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...World Bank said it first: in 2009, the global economy will contract for the first time since World War II. That's the banner headline of the international financial group's March 9 report, but, particularly for developing countries, the devil runs rampant through the details. (Really, when a report is titled "Swimming Against the Tide," you know there's not much good news forthcoming.) The World Bank paints a downright dismal picture of the growth prospects for developing countries, which are just now beginning to feel the full repercussions of the credit crisis that started in the United States...
...global economic outlook: "Global industrial production declined by 20 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 ... Global GDP will decline this year for the first time since World War II, with growth at least 5 percentage points below potential...
...reports that our esteemed President has won the fourth annual American History book prize for her 6th book "The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War...
...Privacy advocates point to a scandal in the state of Maryland, where last summer it was revealed that in 2005 and 2006 undercover members of the Maryland State Police had carried out surveillance of war protesters and death penalty opponents. Some of the intelligence gathered on the subjects, according to logs obtained by the ACLU last summer, may have found its way into databases shared with local, national and federal agencies through the state's fusion center. An investigation found the data collection represented a serious lapse in judgment, but the victims had little recourse, except public outrage...
...book fiasco seemed like yet another instance of bad timing on Dodd's part. After all, being chairman of the Senate Banking Committee gave him little street cred in the 2008 primaries, when the big issue was still the war in Iraq. These days his chairmanship reminds voters of Dodd's problems with Countrywide, and fairly or not, it makes him the face of two deeply unpopular bailouts of Wall Street and an only slightly less unpopular stimulus plan. All of which may explain why Dodd is spending so much time on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee these...