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Just be careful once you start dividing and dividing again. It's often easy to come up with big denominators that make sense, though ultimately too much dividing reduces numbers to another sort of uselessness. Six dollars a day is also 25 cents an hour, or less than half a penny a minute. Would you be willing to pay less than half a penny a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Understand a Trillion-Dollar Deficit | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...help them grow from a subsistence living to a livelihood. His great discovery was that even with few assets, these entrepreneurs repaid on time. Grameen and microfinance have since become financial staples of the developing world, but by coming to the U.S. Grameen is taking on a different sort of challenge: one of the planet's richest countries. Yes, money may be tight in the waning recession, but this is still a nation of 100,000 bank branches. (See TIME's 2009 Person of the Year: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Microfinance Make It in America? | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...actually running the program, or tied to it, or partnering with it,” said outgoing UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09. “Nick is accepting liability.” “We need to publicize [Crimson Cable] without having any sort of institutional tie to something that is legally dubious,” said outgoing vice president Randall S. Sarafa ’09 during yesterday’s UC meeting. But Castine said legal issues concerning Crimson Cable are “gone” at this point in time because...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cable Plan Gets Tepid Nod | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...Thursday, it looked unlikely that any sort of agreement would result from the complicated talks. Alexei Miller, from Russia's state-owned Gazprom, and Oleh Dubina, from Ukrainian Naftogaz, eventually met in Brussels after playing cat and mouse games to avoid one another in the corridors of the European Commission and the European Parliament. A planned joint press conference appeared to be canceled at the last minute when it was due to take place in a room named after murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia-Europe Gas Spat Ends — For Now | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...legal scholars consider to be war crimes. "I would say that there's some theoretical exposure here" to a war-crimes indictment in U.S. federal court, says Gene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School. "But I don't think there's much public appetite for that sort of action." There is, I'm told, absolutely no interest on the part of the incoming Obama Administration to pursue indictments against its predecessors. "We're focused on the future," said one of the President-elect's legal advisers. Fidell and others say it is possible, though highly unlikely, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bush Administration's Most Despicable Act | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

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