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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Other administrators will be hired to serve under each of the three divisional deans, signalling an expansion that caused one professor, who asked for anonymity to avoid conflicts with administrators, to say that Smith was being “too respectful of the justice of adding administrative layers...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Profs Guarded on Reform | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...officials know better or, at the very least, have better memory. The goal of maintaining price stability effectively means pursuing a responsible monetary policy to avoid spiralling inflation, which this year will be well above the two percent goal because of high commodity and energy prices. Even disregarding the Weimar Republic nightmares of the twenties, European bankers remember the dangers of stagflation in the late seventies, and the misallocating effects of irresponsible inflationary policies in continental Europe before the euro. After all, before being constrained by the ECB straightjacket, central bankers in countries like Italy gave in to politicians, expanding...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Stay the Course | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...long run, we are all dead.” And as with almost everything else he said, he was right. At these crossroads, however, Europe’s long-term and short-term goals are aligned: It should stick to its responsible monetary polices and avoid inflation in order to protect the purchasing power of most Europeans. Especially in the context of Fed moves, if the ECB gives in to irresponsible and demagogic politicians, Europe will eventually suffer not only from higher unemployment, but also from higher price levels brought about by internalized expectations...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Stay the Course | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...result of the 1947 United Nation’s (U.N.) vote to partition Palestine, my grandmother had to flee her country in order to escape violence and persecution. -Climbing over rooftops to avoid notice, my grandmother left her family and risked her life to cross the border from Syria into Lebanon, eventually making her way to Italy. My grandmother is only one of approximately 850,000 Jews dispossessed and displaced from Muslim countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf before 1948. Her family had lived peacefully and prosperously in Aleppo, Syria for generations, but after...

Author: By Danielle R. Sassoon | Title: The Forgotten Refugees | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...author’s supposed motive of disclosure seems to erode as the book contains no real medical information about plastic surgery. Furthermore, the mother does not discuss the rationale behind her breast augmentation. Salzhauer admitted in Newsweek that he tried to avoid that issue, calling it “a stretch for a six-year-old.” Yet the decision to have one’s stomach drained of fat seems no more sensible than stuffing silicone into your bosom. If Dr. Michael actually explained any of cosmetic surgery’s fine print and logistics, most...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Tummy Tucks for Toddlers | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

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