This week, The Penguin Podcast gets lyrical. We here from Laura Barber, editor of Poems for Life, and also from a number of Penguin drones talking about the poems that matter to them
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The Penguin Classics Poetry Doctor Sometimes, when your own words fail you, a poem can describe how you’re feeling or express what you want to say... Laura Barber (Poems for Life Publisher and
our very own Poetry Doctor) has the remedy. Email your poetry problem
(broken-hearted, new baby, something fitting for a funeral?) to poetrydoctor@penguin.co.uk and Laura will personally prescribe you with a poem to meet your needs. During November and December 2007, we will be publishing a selection
of your poetry problems, together with Laura’s suggested prescriptions
for them - watch this space. We look forward to hearing from you! If you submit a name then we will post it on the site, otherwise
your post will be anonymous. If you are under 13 please make sure you
have permission from a parent or guardian first before requesting a
poetry prescription.
Penguin's Poems for Life takes its inspiration from Shakespeare’s idea
of the 'seven ages' of a human life, bringing together some of the
best-loved poems in English. Beginning with babies, the book is divided
into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making
love, family life, getting older, and approaching death, ending with
poems of mourning and commemoration.
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Weltbank warnte
Der Präsident der Weltbank, Robert Zoellick, warnte vor einem dramatischen Rückgang des Welthandels in diesem Jahr. Der globale Handel in Gütern und Dienstleistungen werde angesichts der ersten Rezession der Weltwirtschaft seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg um 6 Prozent schrumpfen. Das würde den stärkste Einbruch des Welthandels in den vergangenen 80 Jahren bedeuten. Zoellick kündigte ein neues Liquiditätsprogramm der Weltbank zur Unterstützung des Welthandels über insgesamt 50 Milliarden Dollar an. Er mahnte, auf dem Londoner Gipfel auch über Hilfen für die armen Länder zu reden. Zoellick kritisierte Amerika und China, die globale Ungleichgewichte zementierten, die auf Dauer unhaltbar seien. In den Vereinigten Staaten werde der Konsum angekurbelt und in China investiert. Zoellick sagte mit Blick auf den chinesischen Vorschlag, eine neue globale Reservewährung zu schaffen: „Der Dollar wird die wichtigste Reservewährung der Welt bleiben, und ein starker Dollar ist wichtig, um die Welt aus dieser Krise zu ziehen.“ Mit der Zeit werde es jedoch Diskussionen über die Rolle des Dollar geben.
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Deflation hits Ireland
Ireland's consumer prices fell 2.6 per cent in March from a year ago, the sharpest rate of deflation since 1933, when the world was struggling through the Great Depression, official figures showed yesterday.
The March rate accelerated from an annual deflation rate of 1.7 per cent in February, the Central Statistics Office said. The report said there was no change in prices from February to March, which are now at August 2007 levels.
Ireland's deflation began in January and reflects the country's sudden fall into a deep recession.
The country last suffered from deflation in 1960.
Although lower prices can help spending and exports, deflation can be damaging for an economy if prices enter a downward spiral - consumers hold off buying items on expectations they will become cheaper, pushing retailers to cut prices to encourage spending, and so on.
Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, when announcing an emergency budget on Wednesday to trim 3.25 billion ($7.32 billion) from Ireland's ballooning deficit, said the Government expected deflation to average 4 per cent in 2009.
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WORLDCRISIS
The report praises efforts by some leaders, such as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to reject or reverse decisions aimed at making it harder for companies in foreign countries. President Barack Obama was also commended for ensuring that "Buy American" provisions in the United States' $789 billion stimulus package comply with international agreements.
But its shame list was longer. In the footwear sector alone, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, the European Union, Turkey and Ukraine have enacted or are considering measures designed to slow imports from China or Vietnam, the report showed.
Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, France, India, Russia, and the United States were cited for automotive tariffs, subsidies, credits, licenses or other changes deemed dangerous to trade.
Argentina, the 27-nation EU, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Turkey, the U.S. and Vietnam were listed for protective steel regulations.
It was Lamy's second report on protectionism this year. Future reports are expected every two months as the WTO steps up its monitoring of the crisis.
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France 1944
President Nicolas Sarkozy paid homage Friday on a Riviera beach to soldiers from French colonies who 65 years ago landed in southern France to help defeat the Nazis in what is known as the "forgotten D-Day."
But in Paris, these colonial soldiers who slipped off the pages of history , and also the French bankroll , demonstrated, still hoping for a larger military pension for the estimated 80,000 of them still alive.
Without waiting for the August anniversary of the landing in Provence, Sarkozy used the 64th anniversary of Victory in Europe, or V-E Day, to praise those who have received little recognition for their feat.
The Aug. 15, 1944, southern landing in Provence may not have decided the war, but it "played an absolutely decisive role in France's participation in the final victory," Sarkozy said in a speech on La Nartelle beach in Sainte-Maxime.
French forces, including from African colonies, played a major role in liberating southern France, comprising more than half of the estimated 350,000 soldiers that participated in Operation Dragoon.
Sarkozy noted the Moroccan battalions, the Senegalese and the "spahis" , or North African cavalry , fought for France "like for their mother country, sparing neither pain nor their blood."
France "will not forget their sacrifice," he said.
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