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PARIS ― Rarely does a man in the mold of Muhammad Yunus come along who has devoted his life to the least fortunate among us. Instead of living the peaceful and comfortable life he could have had, h...
Updated : 2011.04.11 18:35
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The victory of Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly in Sunday’s runoff election for the Haitian presidency brought his supporters into the streets to celebrate what many called a complete change from the la...
Updated : 2011.04.10 18:28
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Tensions are growing between the management and labor of Hyundai Motor Co. over the “time-off” system. The automaker’s trade union is stepping up opposition to the new system as it would drastically ...
Updated : 2011.04.10 18:27
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Last year, when China broke off military-to-military talks after the Obama administration’s long-expected sale of defensive arms to Taiwan, a high American official asked his Chinese counterpart why ...
Updated : 2011.04.10 18:27
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A spate of student suicides has pushed the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, one of Korea’s top science universities in Daejeon, into a crisis it has never experienced before. In a...
Updated : 2011.04.10 18:25
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CAIRO ― The political battle for Egypt’s future began in earnest last month when the country’s ruling military council held a referendum to approve its amendments to the constitution. The Muslim B...
Updated : 2011.04.10 18:25
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These days it seems impossible to write about Detroit in measured terms. Words like “war zone,” “post-apocalyptic” and “ghost town” are often used. Stories portray it as a dystopian landscape of crum...
Updated : 2011.04.10 18:24
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At a time when teachers and their unions are under fire across the nation, my eldest daughter just had a much-anticipated interview with Teach for America. She will graduate from college in May and h...
Updated : 2011.04.10 18:23
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NEW YORK ― A prediction three months ago that popular protests would soon topple a dictatorship in Tunisia, sweep Hosni Mubarak from power in Egypt, provoke civil war in Muammar el-Gadhafi’s Libya,...
Updated : 2011.04.10 18:22
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The crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant does not warrant optimism. Nuclear fuel in the cores of the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactors is believed to have been sever...
Updated : 2011.04.08 19:25
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Wedge issues are the rhetorical enablers of the bitterly partisan politics that have disfigured our national conversation in recent years. They’re the controversial questions on which significant nu...
Updated : 2011.04.08 19:24
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How worrisome are real estate bubbles for the banking system? Based upon the recent subprime and then global financial crisis, they are very worrisome indeed. For households, a house is likely to be...
Updated : 2011.04.08 19:23
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Thailand’s Pheu Thai Party’s proposal to give the three southernmost provinces some degree of autonomy sounded like a political campaign platform ― but on closer examination it looks more and more li...
Updated : 2011.04.08 19:21
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The fundamental problem with the current international monetary system is that the U.S. dollar is used as the key international reserve currency, which gives the U.S. central bank the “exorbitant pr...
Updated : 2011.04.08 19:21
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The Filipino public’s consuming interest in the execution of Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, Ramon Credo and Elizabeth Batain was both melodramatic and inevitable. The three drug mules were the first Fil...
Updated : 2011.04.08 19:21
