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Vera Blinken

Capsule Review
Mar/Apr
2009
Vera and the Ambassador: Escape and Return
<p>James Hoge</p>

This memoir provides an illuminating picture of how embassies work to manage demanding and tense negotiations at pivotal points in history and is also a gripping account of a refugee's escape and an engaging peek at the social and cultural aspects of ambassadorial life.
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In the Magazine

November/December 2009, 6, 88
Essay
The Dollar and the Deficits
C. Fred Bergsten

The global economic crisis has revealed the folly of large U.S. budget and trade deficits, as well as of the strong dollar that makes them possible. If it is serious about recovery, the United States must balance the budget, stimulate private saving, and embrace a declining dollar.
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