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...political chaos in a nation facing an acute economic crisis, rivals Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai have reached an agreement to share power. While the terms of the deal are vague, it raises hope for stability in a country where inflation is estimated at more than 11 million percent, half the population is malnourished and 8 out of 10 people are unemployed and live on less than $2 a day. Western economic sanctions on the country remain in place...
...largest insurers, lest they fall completely, levying a harsh and direct impact of American homeowners and healthcare consumers. To put in perspective the centrality of these companies to their respective sectors and to the financial market as a whole, consider that Mae and Freddie Mac finance roughly 80 percent of new mortgages for American homebuyers, while AIG provides more commercial insurance than any other company in the world. Moreover AIG’s dominance in the life insurance and fixed annuities markets makes its performance particularly important to the financial health of so many Americans. Trevor Jones, a managing director...
...Modern Language Association report issued last November cited the steady rise of student enrollment in Chinese language courses nationwide, spotting a 50 percent hike from 2002-2006. Harvard enrollment figures have shown an upward trend over the same time period. 2005 saw the enrollment of 273 Chinese language students, followed by 348 the following year, and roughly 350 last year...
...Career Services (OCS) is countering the downturn with a new philosophy and a new interim director, Robin Mount. Many graduating seniors are nervous about the weak economy this year, as there is sure to be a reduction of job openings in the popular finance sector (last year, 20 percent of graduates went on to work in financial services or management consulting ). Fortunately, well before the economy’s recent plunge, OCS had already begun work on this year’s initiative: a push entitled “turning up the volume on diverse career options” that...
...have “prestige,” the promise of a large salary, and some students are genuinely interested in the field. Unquestionably, however, their popularity is also related to the logistical ease of applying and to job security. For seniors who aren’t a hundred percent sure what they want to do with their lives (read: nearly all of them), the process of On-Campus Recruiting (or “eRecruiting”) is an easy answer...