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Even when General Gration was appointed there were two opinions. [One held] that this general is coming to implement a "no-fly zone" in Darfur like he did in southern Iraq. We know that "no-fly zones" are not the policy of the armed forces nor General Gration, but the policy of the administration that General Gration and the armed forces implemented...
...exactly Christmas come early, but France and Germany did get a nice surprise on Thursday with the news that they have lifted themselves out of recession with Q2 growth of 0.3% each. Meanwhile, the 16 intertwined economies of the euro zone have shrunk less than expected during the second quarter of 2009. But, experts warn, don't go saying that Europe's worst economic crisis in half a century is over just...
...drop economists had expected, with Greece and Portugal joining France and Germany by posting gains of 0.3% each. Meanwhile, Italy's economy shrank by 0.5% and the Netherlands' dropped 0.9%, while Austria and Belgium both contracted by 0.4%. Previously, the U.K. - which does not belong to the euro zone - reported that its expected 0.5% second-quarter decline had in fact been...
...Even if the big euro-zone motors of France and Germany manage to continue growing along with smaller economies like Greece and Portugal, Moec warns that broader European recovery will be a sluggish affair. Countries like the U.K., Spain, and Ireland - which each suffer from some combination of excessive household debt and structural over-reliance on real estate and financial industries - risk taking far longer to remedy their economic ailments, which would slow a regional rebound. Ditto Italy, whose consistent under-performance is rooted in competitive weaknesses that couldn't be cured even during good times. (Read: "In Hard Times...
...going to miss a lot of things when I leave Seoul. I’ll miss green tea ice cream and jjimtang chicken. I’ll miss being obligation-free after 6p.m. I’ll even miss living in "the Pink Zone"—a.k.a. the area surrounding Ewha Womens University. But most of all, I’ll miss the people I’ve grown close to over the past two months...