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...California's Coachella, which was launched in 1999, has carved a niche as a haven for alternative and progressive artists with acts such as The Cure, The Crystal Method, Zero 7 and The Flaming Lips. Along with Lollapolooza, which will present the Red Hot Chili Peppers and other groups on August 4-6, other festivals making waves this year are Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival, featuring Spoon, Os Mutantes, Mission of Burma and The Futureheads; and Austin City Limits, which boasts Ben Harper, Willie Nelson, Van Morrison and Massive Attack...
...That should be telling us something. What is it? In the past few years, the central banks of Japan, the U.S. and Europe have cut interest rates so aggressively that the real cost of borrowing fell to, effectively, below zero. That spurred extraordinary amounts of debt financing by governments and corporations. But now, as the global credit cycle tightens, some of the marginal investments will quickly become unsustainable. If central bankers keep raising interest rates, deeper cracks would open in the world economy...
...away the highest in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (o.e.c.d.). Because of the high level of mortgage debt, Jamie Caruana, governor of the Bank of Spain, warned last year that by the end of 2004, "The cushion of saving available ... had fallen to practically zero for Spanish households." Ricardo Vergés, an economist who earlier this year completed the first accounting report on housing for the National Institute of Statistics, is spooked by what he found. "We have €7.4 billion in mortgages. If you divide that by the national income, you see that we're indebted...
...resolution calling on Harvard to include protections for “gender identity” in its nondiscrimination policy. Kouskalis says the previous policy, which protected “sexual orientation,” might not include adequate safeguards for transgender students and staff.The resolution passed 33 to zero. Two days later, Harvard announced that it had amended its policy.Both the co-ed rooming and the gender identity initiatives “were things that I worked on but by no means that I deserve all the credit for,” Kouskalis writes in an e-mail. The Bisexual...
Small Step for the K-School January 21, 1981 Not many schools here have fewer female professors than Ronald Reagan’s cabinet. But the Kennedy School, with zero, does, and for most of the last term, student and women’s groups have called on the school to recruit, actively, women and minority faculty and students, and to scrap classroom policies they considered discriminatory. One women’s group even charged that the school’s lackadaisical search for women and minority faculty candidates has violated federal affirmative action hiring codes, a complaint still pending...