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...framers of the Constitution were constantly worried that even in a republic fools could end up in control of the government. That might be the sort of elected officials who would chase issues that may be popular but are ultimately almost worthless in terms of helping the country, and, in the present case, the economy. Whether AIG employees got large bonuses, especially since they probably had contracts to guarantee the compensation, is irrelevant in the overall effort to turn the course of the recession...
...first 8:07 and outscoring its visitors 7-1 in the first 20:48 of the game. Nunn scored her first goal little over a minute into the game, and freshman Katelyn Caro’s back-to-back goals solidified the advantage. Harvard could not muster any sort of response to the barrage, finding itself down 3-0 before the Crimson had taken a single shot. Finally, after nine minutes had passed, Halpern put her team on the scoreboard with an unassisted goal. “She’s so quick that she can get by any Division...
House List: Putrescent. I mean, it's called "Moose Droppings." Of the dry, flaky, uninteresting sort...
...seen as a safe investment. That means, in China, you don't have the real estate equivalent of "dine and dash": people don't abandon houses the minute they think the price level is lower than what they paid, leaving it to the mortgage company or the banks to sort out. There's no sub-prime, zero-percent-down U.S.-style debacle here...
...helping integrate Westerners into the Bukit Panjang neighborhood, the 30-year-old Englishman sees a small but steadily growing number of Americans, Australians and Europeans in the fluorescent-lit coffee shop where locals often gather after work around cold pitchers of beer. These foreigners are economic refugees of a sort. Because of the global recession, expat bankers, traders and corporate managers have lost their high-paying jobs with multinational corporations. But instead of returning to their home countries, they've decided to stay in Asia, even though that means moving into cheaper housing and giving up privileges that once...