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...appeal to Beijing to curtail its support for Khartoum. China imports over two-thirds of Sudan’s oil, has invested as much as $15 billion in Sudan’s economy, has stonewalled past Security Council resolutions on the Darfur genocide, and bears responsibility for 90 percent of small arms sales to Sudan since...
...measure, which Smith is describing as a “pause to plan,” will attempt to keep Faculty numbers steady over the 2008-2009 academic year, meaning that only 25 to 30 new hires will be made, about 30 percent less than the average over the last 10 years, to offset retirements and other departures...
Continuing with its senior theme, Yale will present a formidable opponent at the faceoff X in the form of senior midfielder Gregory Duboff, who has won over 60 percent of his faceoffs this season...
...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...
...Instead, perhaps Europe should set in stone yet another rule to go along with the ECB’s tight two percent goal: Whenever Berlusconi favors a policy, run the other...