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The Debt Problem Is Enormous, and the System for Fixing It Is Broken
[ad_1] Martin Guzman was a college freshman at La Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, in 2001 when a debt crisis prompted default, riots and a devastating depression. A dazed middle class suffered ruin, as the International Monetary Fund insisted that the government make misery-inducing budget cuts in exchange for a bailout. Watching Argentina unravel inspired Mr. Guzman to switch…
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In Search of Vintage Christmas Window Displays
[ad_1] Decades ago in many Canadian cities, Christmas saw department stores replace clothing and housewares in their display windows with fantastic holiday worlds populated by electromechanical figures animated by a series of hidden wires, chains, pulleys and motors. In my childhood, I saw them when I was taken across the river from Windsor, Ontario, to the giant Hudson’s department store…
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Israel Knew Hamas’s Money Source Years Before Oct. 7 Attacks
[ad_1] Israeli security officials scored a major intelligence coup in 2018: secret documents that laid out, in intricate detail, what amounted to a private equity fund that Hamas used to finance its operations. The ledgers, pilfered from the computer of a senior Hamas official, listed assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Hamas controlled mining, chicken farming and road building…
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A Viral Dance and ‘Happiness Campaign’ Frustrates Iran’s Clerics
[ad_1] A new form of protest against the government is rocking Iran: a viral dance craze set to an upbeat folk song where crowds clap and chant the rhythmic chorus, ‘oh, oh, oh, oh.’ In cities across Iran men and women of all ages are gyrating their hips, swirling their arms in the air, and chanting the song’s catchy lines,…
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In India, There’s an App for Everything. Even Dream Babies.
[ad_1] Want to raise a child with the business acumen of the industrial tycoon Ratan Tata, the concentration powers of the spiritual guru Swami Vivekananda, the scientific brilliance of the nuclear hero A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and — of course — the patriotic confidence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi? In India, there is an app for that. In fact, many apps.…
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Lead Levels in Children’s Applesauce May Be Traced to Cinnamon Additive
[ad_1] With dozens of children across the United States suffering from lead poisoning, federal regulators are now investigating whether the culprit is cinnamon that was added to some popular applesauce pouches, and if lead had been added somewhere along the global supply chain, either to enhance the spice’s reddish color or to add weight. In November, the Food and Drug…
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Al Jazeera Cameraman Killed and Bureau Chief Injured in Gaza
[ad_1] An Al Jazeera cameraman was killed and the network’s Arabic-language Gaza Strip bureau chief was wounded on Friday during an attack in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera said, the latest in a long string of journalist casualties in the war. The cameraman, Samer Abu Daqqa, and Wael al-Dahdouh, the bureau chief, were covering the aftermath of airstrikes at a U.N.…
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Merle Goldman, a Leading Expert on Communist China, Dies at 92
[ad_1] In November 1974, a small group of American college presidents spent three weeks traveling through China, visiting universities, communes, factories and even the office of Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, who was still four years away from taking over as Communist Party leader. Though the United States had recently re-established relations with China, it was an insular, even forbidding place,…
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In Israel, Jake Sullivan, Denies Talk of a Rift Over War
[ad_1] Days after President Biden said Israel was losing support for its military campaign in the Gaza Strip, the president’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, on Friday played down differences between the two allies after meetings with Israel’s top leaders. “We’re not here to tell anybody, ‘You must do X, you must do Y,’” Mr. Sullivan told reporters in Tel…
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Senators Hold Up 43 Biden Diplomatic Nominees as Crises Roil World
[ad_1] The Biden administration has 43 presidential nominees still awaiting confirmation in the Senate as Congress prepares to break for the holidays, a delay that is putting American national security and foreign policy interests in jeopardy around the world, the State Department said on Friday. Any nominee not confirmed before the Senate ends its session, which is expected as soon…
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