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Visit WSJ.com at U.S. | EUROPE | ASIA News by section: Front Section | Opinion | Front Section | |   FRONT SECTION 1 G-20 Officials Differ Over Monetary Goals Top global officials at a G-20 meeting in China offered starkly different views on exchange rates and other monetary goals, with the U.S.'s Geithner emphasizing the importance of flexible rates in remarks that were a thinly veiled criticism of China's currency policy. • Currency Moves Highlight Global Divide • China Real Time: Full Text of Geithner's Remarks • Full Coverage: Yuan Japanese Plant Had Barebones Risk Plan Tokyo Electric Power's disaster plans greatly underestimated the scope of a potential accident at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, calling for only one stretcher, one satellite phone and 50 protective suits in case of emergencies. • News Hub: Plant's Safety Plan Wasn't Safe Berkshire's Sokol Defends Stock Buys David Sokol defended his decision to trade Lubrizol stock after resigning from Berkshire Hathaway unexpectedly amid surprising revelations about his personal stock trading. • News Hub: Who Will Succeed Warren Buffett? • Heard: Buffett: The Secret of My Successor • Middleburg Shares Jump in Sokol's Wake • How Much Money Did Sokol Make? • Analysis: Deconstructing Buffett's Letter • Succession Plans Hit the Spotlight 2 • What's News   3 • Japan Disaster Pressures Asia Prices • Euro-Zone Inflation Fuels Rate-Rise Concerns   4 • Radiation Detected in Plant Groundwater • Many Tourists Cancel Trips to Japan   5 • Woes Could Linger for Japan's Jobless   6 • U.S. Forces Scale Back Relief Work   FRONT SECTION 10 India's Population Rises to 1.21 Billion India released the first results of a new census showing that the world's second-most populous nation added 181 million people—equivalent to about five Canadas—in the past decade to reach a total of 1.21 billion. • India Census Reflects a Grim Reality for Girls • Earlier: Weren't You Counted Already? Chinese Police Quash Protest Over Land Rights Chinese police crushed a five-day protest by up to 2,000 villagers over relocation compensation for one of the country's largest hydroelectric power projects, according to local officials. 11 • Yale Plans Joint Campus in Singapore   12 • NATO Rules Out Arming Rebels • Demands by Yemeni President's Family Stall Talks View the latest What's News Online Past Editions of In Today's Paper OPINION 7 A Lesson of Import Two-way trade, not just exports, matters for America.   Japanese Trade Winds Liberalizing commerce would be more helpful than all the aid and advice Europe could muster.   Singed by the Dragon The Philippines discovers that it doesn't pay to appease China.   8 OPINION • Lead Japan to Recovery, Mr. Kan •  ANDREW FERGUSON: Congratulations! You've Been Accepted to BSU   9 OPINION •  ALAN S. BLINDER: Handicapping the Economic Recovery • Why Taiwan Will Fail   13 Google Losing Ground in China A year after Google moved its search services out of China in a feud with Beijing, the Internet giant is struggling to maintain traction on a range of businesses in the country. • Chinese Rules Target Foreign Firms   Vodafone Buys Out Indian Partner Vodafone Group said it has paid $5 billion to buy out its joint-venture partner in India, in a move aimed at strengthening the mobile company in the region.   16 • Quake Threatens Gadget Supply • Acer CEO Resigns as Tablets Threaten Market   17 • Sands China Faces Hong Kong Probe • India Eases Foreign Investment Rules   18 • Microsoft Fires Antitrust Complaint Against Google • Google Wants Search to Be More Social   19 • Rusal Net Profit More Than Triples • Reports Detail Incidents of Korean Air, Asiana Jets   20 • Currency Moves Highlight Global Divide • Moody's Cuts Tepco's Credit Rating Again • Prada Steps Closer to Hong Kong IPO   21 • Buffett Successor List Gets Shorter   22 • Irish Banks Move Toward Nationalization • Japanese Yields Rise • CREDIT MARKETS: Fed Comment Pushes Treasurys Lower   23 • DJIA Ends Big Quarter With a Loss • Tokyo Ends Worst Month Since May on a High Note • Hedge Funds Go Long on Japanese Equity   28 • HEARD ON THE STREET: Global Trade Facing Headwinds • HEARD ON THE STREET: Search for High-Growth Media Leads to Google • Overheard   W1 Trouble in Paradise A record 2.3 million foreigners visited Bali in 2010, part of a surge that has brought increased prosperity to much of the island. But it has also created a new set of problems for Bali's four million inhabitants. • Photos: The Tourist Challenge   W3 • A great critical auction   W4 • Dish: Mont Blanc Meet Mount Kinabaru • Hugh Johnson's experience in wine • Wine 101: Come Auction Time, Skip The Bordeaux   W5 • HOME FRONT: Poetry in the Palms   W6 • 20 Odd Questions: Stephanie Phair   W7 • Riding High • Outer Beauty: Orange Blossoms   W8 • The Starvation Vacation • The ranch regimen   W9 • Water With an Edge • Stay sane - find some 'you time'   W10 • Deneuve, Tart Humor Elevate 'Potiche' • 'Hi, Fidelity' director stays faithful to his vision   W11 • Among the Hagiographers   W12 • RUMBLE SEAT: When Vroom Conquers Cuteness  Follow WSJ on Facebook and Twitter.

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Adar II 25, 5771 · March 31, 2011 Film Crew Heads to Miami to Record Key Memories Three interviewers from the organization charged with preserving teachings of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, took their operation south this week. Post Comment  |  Read Story Ohio Girls Bake Cookies to Benefit Orphans Touched by the enormity of the tragedy that almost wiped out and family and orphaned three Israeli children, two young girls on the Ohio State University campus decided to raise money for the survivors. Post Comment  |  Read Story New Curriculum in Works After Holocaust Seminar A group of 20 educators returned from a unique Israeli seminar on Holocaust education with a plan to develop a new curriculum for middle and high school students. Post Comment  |  Read Story Students Take Torch of Arizona Leadership One particular morning, as Thomas Hoffman learned how to don the Jewish prayer boxes known as tefillin in Los Altos, Calif., his son Philip - who was 850 miles away at the Chabad House in Tucson - was doing the same thing. Post Comment  |  Read Story Growing Seniors Program Creates Friendships When a group of Essex County, N.J., residents got together with their local Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and devised a program to bring joy and companionship to the high number of seniors in their area, little did they know that they'd strike a chord among Jewish communities across North America. Post Comment  |  Read Story Talk of the Planet Love Returns to Seat of California's Sixties Counterculture In a neighborhood best known for its role in S. Francisco's hippie movement of the 1960s, a family of new Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries have geared up to bring a one-of-a-kind Jewish message of brotherly love. Los Angeles Boys Memorize Entire Sections of the Mishnah A group of Los Angeles children are apparently well prepared for the future, judging from the results of an intensive examination. Ottawa Dinner Draws Jewish Students From Area Universities Featuring an address from Government House Leader John Baird, the Rohr Chabad-Lubavitch Student Network of Ottawa's annual Shabbat 200 mega Friday night dinner drew 240 Jewish students from Carleton and Ottawa Universities. Texas Master-Planned Community Gets State's 21st Chabad House It's not just about picturesque facades and manicured lawns: One of America's most successful master-planned communities will now have a new Chabad-Lubaivtch center on its carefully-aligned map. More News Briefs   In the Media Chabad on Campus house dedication marks end of first round of renovations St. Louis Jewish Light More Media Stories

Stalemate in Libya, Syria, Yemen? Libya: The rebels continue their back-and-forth battle with Muammar Gaddafi's forces. Rebels made a major westward push early in the week, advancing close to Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, only to be pushed back by the Libyan leader's better equipped army. Gaddafi's forces quickly retook Bin Jawad and Ras Lanuf. Gaddafi did face a diplomatic setback on Wednesday, when his foreign minister and close confidante Moussa Koussa defected to the United Kingdom. There were reports that the United States is considering a plan to send weapons to the rebels, and that CIA agents have arrived in Libya to coordinate with them. Syria: President Bashar al-Assad finally broke his silence on Wednesday, when he delivered a much-anticipated speech to parliament on the unrest which has swept Syria for the past week. Assad blamed protests on "foreign conspirators," who he accused of trying to "divide Syria, weaken Syria." But Assad did not offer any new reforms in his speech, promising only to enact timetables for the other reforms (like ending the emergency law) announced a week earlier. Yemen: Negotiations between president Ali Abdullah Saleh and the opposition seem to have largely stalled. In a meeting with leaders of the Islah party, Saleh reportedly offered to transfer power to a caretaker government - but he would remain in office until a new president was elected. The offer was promptly rejected. Earlier in the week, an explosion at an ammunition factory in Abyan province killed more than 100 people.

Middle East Egypt's ruling military junta has promised a presidential vote by the end of the year, following parliamentary elections in September. Israel and Islamic Jihad continue to trade fire across the Gaza border, despite a call by Hamas for a cease-fire. Americas Witnesses at a US congressional hearing said American Muslims face 'growing discrimination.' The Canadian government, toppled by a no-confidence vote, has scheduled parliamentary elections for early May. Asia-Pacific Authorities in Japan have been urged to extend the nuclear exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant. Dozens are dead and thousands stranded following heavy flooding in southern Thailand. Europe Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi appeared in court in Milan over alleged tax offenses, his first court appearance in nearly a decade. Hundreds of thousands of Britons, angry about government austerity measures, took to the streets of London. Africa Fighters loyal to Cote D'Ivoire's internationally recognised leader, Alassane Ouattara, advanced into the major cocoa port of San Pedro. The new Egyptian prime minister has promised to recognise South Sudan when it becomes independent later this year.   Opinion Tarak Barkawi argues that the West is "using euphemism to deny a state of war against Gaddafi under the guise of a humanitarian mission."

The West's strategy in Libya As the bombs continue to fall, the international community is scrambling to define its mission in Libya. North Dakota's black gold rush A fast developing oil and gas industry is taking a toll on infrastructure and raising concerns among local tribes. Flying half-blind in Libya The rescue of a downed US F-15 crew near Benghazi shows the challenges of identifying friend from foe in aerial war. Art challenges Tunisian revolutionaries The Artocracy project, featuring photos of ordinary Tunisians, has proven art can be just as provocative as politics. Learning all the wrong lessons in Jordan Lamis Andoni on how the Jordanian government is learning all the wrong lessons from recent pro-reform demonstrations.

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Adar II 25, 5771 · March 31, 2011 Film Crew Heads to Miami to Record Key Memories Three interviewers from the organization charged with preserving teachings of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, took their operation south this week. Post Comment  |  Read Story Ohio Girls Bake Cookies to Benefit Orphans Touched by the enormity of the tragedy that almost wiped out and family and orphaned three Israeli children, two young girls on the Ohio State University campus decided to raise money for the survivors. Post Comment  |  Read Story New Curriculum in Works After Holocaust Seminar A group of 20 educators returned from a unique Israeli seminar on Holocaust education with a plan to develop a new curriculum for middle and high school students. Post Comment  |  Read Story Students Take Torch of Arizona Leadership One particular morning, as Thomas Hoffman learned how to don the Jewish prayer boxes known as tefillin in Los Altos, Calif., his son Philip - who was 850 miles away at the Chabad House in Tucson - was doing the same thing. Post Comment  |  Read Story Growing Seniors Program Creates Friendships When a group of Essex County, N.J., residents got together with their local Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and devised a program to bring joy and companionship to the high number of seniors in their area, little did they know that they'd strike a chord among Jewish communities across North America. Post Comment  |  Read Story Talk of the Planet Love Returns to Seat of California's Sixties Counterculture In a neighborhood best known for its role in S. Francisco's hippie movement of the 1960s, a family of new Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries have geared up to bring a one-of-a-kind Jewish message of brotherly love. Los Angeles Boys Memorize Entire Sections of the Mishnah A group of Los Angeles children are apparently well prepared for the future, judging from the results of an intensive examination. Ottawa Dinner Draws Jewish Students From Area Universities Featuring an address from Government House Leader John Baird, the Rohr Chabad-Lubavitch Student Network of Ottawa's annual Shabbat 200 mega Friday night dinner drew 240 Jewish students from Carleton and Ottawa Universities. Texas Master-Planned Community Gets State's 21st Chabad House It's not just about picturesque facades and manicured lawns: One of America's most successful master-planned communities will now have a new Chabad-Lubaivtch center on its carefully-aligned map. More News Briefs   In the Media Chabad on Campus house dedication marks end of first round of renovations St. Louis Jewish Light More Media Stories